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Topic: Apollo LEM mockup (Sept. 16, 1963; M-1?)
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toddmp
Member Posts: 56
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 01-24-2016 03:55 PM
  
Does anyone have a photo of the Apollo lunar module mockup that was completed on Sept. 16, 1963? I have a zippo with an engraving commemorating that mockup completion but cannot seem to find a photo of it. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-25-2016 03:53 AM
Which one? The B&W photo is dated September 1963. The color one is from 1964. 
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toddmp
Member Posts: 56
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 01-25-2016 11:33 AM
Thank you! It is the top one and it matches the engraving on my lighter. I'll post a photo of it later today. |
Paul78zephyr
Member Posts: 678
From: Hudson, MA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-25-2016 01:08 PM
Are those astronauts in front of the mockup in the first photo? Tom Stafford (on left)? Pete Conrad (with bag on right)? |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1313
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 01-25-2016 02:02 PM
Looks like Ed White also, to Conrad's right. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-26-2016 06:03 AM
Stafford and Conrad is right. I think the other guy looks like White, but it's not him. Schirra, Lovell and See were also present. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2458
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 01-26-2016 02:54 PM
Ed, somewhere I've seen a photo of White (?) dangling on the end of a hoist exiting a LM mock-up before they decided it wasn't practical and opted to have a ladder instead. Do you have it? |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1428
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 01-26-2016 06:57 PM
There's some video of that on the Moon Machines DVD. The ladder was an obvious, but maybe not back then, much like the expanse of glass on LM models prior to that / those dates. |
toddmp
Member Posts: 56
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Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 01-28-2016 11:36 AM
Finally remembered to pull this out for a photo for you guys. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 02-06-2016 11:18 AM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
Schirra, Lovell and See were also present.
That might be Wally Schirra at top right. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-15-2016 07:02 PM
Ed, would you have any photos available of astronaut See with the M-5 mockup (color photo you previously posted) at the Grumman plant? Thank you! |
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