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Topic: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo capsules together
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 07-23-2018 11:07 AM
  
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Any earlier S-IC-6 photos with the all-white intertank?
Here is a 1967 photo showing S-IC-8 (Apollo 13) in the Michoud Vertical Assembly Building before the engines were installed. The S-IC-8 stage has an all-white intertank structure. |
LM-12
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posted 07-24-2018 10:47 AM
When S-IC-3 left Michoud for KSC in December 1967, it had an all-white intertank structure. At the time, AS-503 with S-IC-3 was planned as an unmanned flight.A month earlier, when the McDivitt and Borman crews were announced, the plan was for the McDivitt crew to fly on AS-504 and the Borman crew to fly on AS-505. Then in early 1968, it was decided that AS-503 would be a manned flight. So the McDivitt crew moved from AS-504 to AS-503, and the Borman crew moved from AS-505 to AS-504. And then, of course, the LM-3 delay meant yet another switch. The McDivitt crew moved from AS-503 back to AS-504, and the Borman crew moved from AS-504 to AS-503. |
LM-12
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posted 08-15-2019 08:46 AM
Retro Space Images has this May 1971 photo of the Apollo 16 LM-11 ascent stage in the MSOB. There is another LM in the background. It must be LM-9 from the cancelled Apollo 15 H-mission. |
Fra Mauro
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From: Bethpage, N.Y.
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posted 08-15-2019 12:12 PM
It must be. The Apollo 17 LM hasn't been shipped yet. Poor little LM that no one will fly! |
LM-12
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posted 08-15-2019 12:35 PM
And LM-10 was on the pad when the Apollo 16 ascent stage was delivered to KSC. |
dtemple
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From: Longview, Texas, USA
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posted 08-31-2019 04:26 PM
Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 at Lewis Research Center, 30th anniversary, 1971. |
NavyPilot
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From: USA
Registered: Nov 2015
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posted 09-01-2019 07:48 AM
Why is the CM-103 postflight finish so different than the other CMs? Was it flown only with paint vs kapton polymide tape? |
LM-12
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posted 09-01-2019 09:20 AM
The Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 command modules in museums also look white. |
NaugtonSimao
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posted 09-07-2019 12:13 PM
Even some Skylab commad modules in pictures look white. This does not happens with Apollo-Soyuz for example. I have always wondered why, but never found and answer. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-07-2019 01:21 PM
The Apollo command modules that were built for Earth orbit missions — Apollo 7, Apollo 8 (as the mission was originally planned), Apollo 9 and the three Skylab missions — had a white thermal coating applied to their exterior prior to the Kapton polymide tape. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project command module would have had the same, but it was originally built to fly to the moon with the Apollo 18 crew. |
LM-12
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posted 09-25-2019 12:33 PM
The Apollo 12, Apollo 13 and Apollo 14 command modules are seen on display at the North American Rockwell plant in 1972. |
Skylon
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posted 09-26-2019 07:12 AM
That's pretty cool, but has me curious now about the post-flight flow of flown Command Modules. After recovery, was any post-flight servicing not done on the recovery ship conducted at Downey? When was the final disposition of these vehicles determined? Were they retained at Downey until the last Apollo CSM flew in 1975?I am especially surprised to see Apollo 13's Command Module there since it was supposedly part of an accident investigation (albeit one completed at that point). |
LM-12
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posted 07-27-2023 10:15 AM
Here is another photo (credit John Bauldry/Facebook) taken around the time of the welcome home ceremony for Apollo 17 at Downey in January 1973. Three post-flight command modules can be seen in the photo. Maybe Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17? |
NavyPilot
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From: USA
Registered: Nov 2015
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posted 07-27-2023 08:39 PM
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