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From: hitchin, herts, UK
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posted 07-19-2019 10:17 AM            

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Does anyone recall or even have any photos of the Apollo 10 command module doing a tour of the UK around 1971?

In particular any recollections of a visit to RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire?

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From: England
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From: Dundee,Scotland
Registered: Jul 2008

posted 08-21-2019 05:36 PM               

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Yes, in 1971 it was at the old Transport museum in Albert Drive Glasgow. I was 11 at the time, got my dad to take me. We had to wait ages in a huge queue. My dad wanted to go, got fed up waiting, but I managed to persuade him to stay. I remember him commenting on the quality of the photographs on display!

I stuck my head in the door of the command module and the security guard pulled me out! There was a piece of moon rock on display. I bought a book about Glasgow Tram Cars in the shop and then stamped it with a commemorative stamp of the Apollo X capsule display.

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From: Netherlands
Registered: May 2007

posted 06-03-2020 04:41 AM               

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Originally posted by AlanLawrie:
Does anyone recall or even have any photos of the Apollo 10 command module doing a tour of the UK around 1971?

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The Apollo 10 command module has been exhibited at the AVIODOME aviation museum at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam The Netherlands from 1974 through 1975.

On April 3, 1974, the spacecraft was handed over by the US ambassador in the presence of Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart. The loan agreement was for a year and a half.

Shortly before the transfer to the Science Museum in London (January 1976), I took pictures of the exterior and the interior of the capsule (that was on November 25, 1975).

Hopefully this information will help answer the request in SpaceFlight Magazine (June 2020).