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Topic: Lunar Test Article (LTA) B on Apollo 8
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Jim_Voce
Member Posts: 275
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Registered: Jul 2016
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posted 07-14-2017 12:49 AM
   
The Apollo 8 mission carried a ballast called Lunar Test Article B. The only photographs I have seen of it are inside Apollo 8's Saturn IVB stage. Are there photographs of it before it was mated to the Saturn stage?Also, if this was Lunar Test Article B, was there a Lunar Test Article A? |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1739
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 07-14-2017 08:23 AM
I think one was used on Apollo 4 and another on Apollo 6. |
mikej
Member Posts: 483
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 07-19-2017 06:19 PM
As per Stages to Saturn, Apollo 4 launched LTA-10R and Apollo 6 launched LTA-2R.Don't think I've ever heard of LTA-A, although with a -B, one would expect that there was one somewhere along the way. |
Explorer1
Member Posts: 238
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 04-12-2020 06:30 PM
Which was the first habitable Apollo LTA that had a working instrument panel and when was it delivered to the Manned Spacecraft Center? Editor's note: Threads merged. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1746
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-13-2020 08:08 AM
LTA-8. |
space shuttle mike
New Member Posts: 5
From: Fruitport, MI
Registered: Mar 2022
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posted 11-20-2022 05:41 PM
I always thought the "B" stood for "ballast". |
NavyPilot
Member Posts: 85
From: USA
Registered: Nov 2015
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posted 11-23-2022 06:36 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Jim_Voce:
Are there photographs of it before it was mated to the Saturn stage?
Here are two: 
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