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Topic: Apollo LM-5 assembly schedule at Grumman
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bklyn55
Member Posts: 361
From: Milford, CT
Registered: Dec 2014
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posted 10-22-2015 04:08 PM
   
In the summer of 1967, I was awaiting September to start my senior year at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and get my BS in aerospace engineering. I was lucky enough to get a temporary job at Grumman in Bethpage, Long Island, and found myself on the LEM (as it was called then) Program in the Structural Design Review group. Beside the fact that I knew nothing about what I was doing, I thought it was really cool that I was actually working on something that was going to the moon. The craft that was currently on the shop floor was in initial build and not very far along. I remember that it was identified as LEM 5, and for the last 50 years I've been bragging to everybody that I worked on the first craft to land on the moon. Recently someone told me it couldn't have been LM 5 because in mid 1967 LM 5 was not yet on the assembly shop floor! Is the dementia starting, or do I remember correctly and can I continue bragging? Does anybody know what the actual build schedule for LM 5 was? Or in what stage it was in during June-September 1967. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4494
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-22-2015 04:48 PM
Probably LTA-5. |
rlobinske
Member Posts: 155
From: Crawfordville, FL
Registered: Oct 2014
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posted 10-22-2015 07:09 PM
You may have worked on the M5 metal mockup. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 10-23-2015 09:54 PM
Here is a photo of lunar module LTA-5 as it was in 2007. Here is a photo of lunar module TM-5.I am sure the photo of TM-5 is not of any use in identifying which LM was worked on since this one has been refinished to resemble a flight vehicle. Here is a photo of another test article, LTA-3, which is very similar to LTA-5. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 10-25-2015 04:02 AM
I have a 'LM flight vehicle history' from Grumman, which indicates that LM-5 was assembled between mid 1966 and early 1969. Almost all of 1967 is marked as 'final assembly' of both ascent and descent stage. So I would continue bragging if I were you. |
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