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heng44
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posted 01-22-2011 03:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Overall view of Apollo spacecraft 105 in Building 49 at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston before acoustic vibration testing in early 1968. Astronaut Gordon Cooper manned the vehicle for the tests.

Ed Hengeveld

Fezman92
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posted 01-22-2011 10:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fezman92   Click Here to Email Fezman92     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Why does the escape tower have all of that yellow tape?

Michael Davis
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posted 01-22-2011 11:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Michael Davis   Click Here to Email Michael Davis     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The lines are probably part of the test gear and sensors to monitor the vibration of the escape tower during the oscillation tests. A former co-worker of mine was part of the this test. He told me that once the vibration of the tower became so dramatic that Cooper exited the command module for fear that the whole stack was about to collapse. This test must have really pushed the limits.

MarylandSpace
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posted 01-22-2011 12:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MarylandSpace   Click Here to Email MarylandSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Interesting photo. I enjoy them.

Gordo got all the shakin' without the benefit of a Lunar launch.

APG85
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posted 01-22-2011 01:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for APG85     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very cool! What became of this set-up?

GACspaceguy
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posted 01-22-2011 02:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The CSM is in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as the Apollo half of the ASTP display there.

Reference this page of A Field Guide to American Spacecraft website.

APG85
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posted 01-22-2011 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for APG85     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fascinating. I hope there is a storyboard explaining it's history...

hlbjr
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posted 01-23-2011 06:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hlbjr   Click Here to Email hlbjr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Building 45 must be enormous. Where is it located on the JSC Campus?

Apollo Redux
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posted 01-30-2011 05:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Apollo Redux   Click Here to Email Apollo Redux     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice.

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