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Author	Topic: Photo of the week 952 (January 21, 2023)
heng44 Member Posts: 3646 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 01-20-2023 11:25 AM NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle appears to defy gravity as pilot Joe Walker simulates a moon landing at Edwards Air Force Base on October 8, 1965.
MartinAir Member Posts: 260 From: Registered: Oct 2020	posted 01-20-2023 02:18 PM Thank you, Ed! Wish there were more photos/movies available from the LLRV/LLTV program. For example, I have not been able to find any showing Richard Gordon flying or posing with the flying bedstead.
Ian Limbrey Member Posts: 183 From: England Registered: Nov 2012	posted 01-21-2023 04:09 AM Interesting photo Ed! These machines were very unstable to fly and hence Neil Armstrong had to eject along with a couple of others and I believe there is only one remaining which is at Cape Kennedy!
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 49831 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999	posted 01-21-2023 10:20 AM Johnson Space Center displays a LLTV in the lobby of the Teague Auditorium in Building 2: And an LLRV is on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Photo is of it being moved into the museum in 2016.)
Panther494 Member Posts: 556 From: London UK Registered: Jan 2013	posted 01-21-2023 12:27 PM Amazing, no health and safety in those days, brilliant. Great photo, thanks for posting these each week.

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