KSC Apollo question

I visited Kennedy earlier this year as a guest of NASA. While there I
visited the Saturn V centre. The NASA people escorting us showed us the
Apollo Command Module bur could not say which mission it came from. Can
anyone identify which Apollo it is. Or is like the STS on view at the
visitors Center, a clever reproduction?

Rod Stevenson
England

"Rod Stevenson" writes:

I visited Kennedy earlier this year as a guest of NASA. While there I
visited the Saturn V centre. The NASA people escorting us showed us the
Apollo Command Module bur could not say which mission it came from. Can
anyone identify which Apollo it is. Or is like the STS on view at the
visitors Center, a clever reproduction?

The "used" CM is CM-111 from ASTP.

Also there is CM-119, which was the rescue vehicle for the Skylab
missions.

Unless you are talking about the Command Module on the S-V, which is
actually a boilerplate, BP-30.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

"Rod Stevenson" writes:

I visited Kennedy earlier this year as a guest of NASA. While there I
visited the Saturn V centre. The NASA people escorting us showed us the
Apollo Command Module bur could not say which mission it came from. Can
anyone identify which Apollo it is. Or is like the STS on view at the
visitors Center, a clever reproduction?

The "used" CM is CM-111 from ASTP.

Also there is CM-119, which was the rescue vehicle for the Skylab
missions.

Unless you are talking about the Command Module on the S-V, which is
actually a boilerplate, BP-30.

--
Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich

"Richard Kaszeta" wrote in message
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"Rod Stevenson" writes:

I visited Kennedy earlier this year as a guest of NASA. While there I
visited the Saturn V centre. The NASA people escorting us showed us the
Apollo Command Module bur could not say which mission it came from. Can
anyone identify which Apollo it is. Or is like the STS on view at the
visitors Center, a clever reproduction?

The "used" CM is CM-111 from ASTP.

Also there is CM-119, which was the rescue vehicle for the Skylab
missions.

Unless you are talking about the Command Module on the S-V, which is
actually a boilerplate, BP-30.

So then which one is the Command Module that is attached to the
Soyuz in the NASM in DC? I thought it would be the ASTP unit.

RT

"Richard Kaszeta" wrote in message
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"Rod Stevenson" writes:

I visited Kennedy earlier this year as a guest of NASA. While there I
visited the Saturn V centre. The NASA people escorting us showed us the
Apollo Command Module bur could not say which mission it came from. Can
anyone identify which Apollo it is. Or is like the STS on view at the
visitors Center, a clever reproduction?

The "used" CM is CM-111 from ASTP.

Also there is CM-119, which was the rescue vehicle for the Skylab
missions.

Unless you are talking about the Command Module on the S-V, which is
actually a boilerplate, BP-30.

So then which one is the Command Module that is attached to the
Soyuz in the NASM in DC? I thought it would be the ASTP unit.

RT

In article EtQzb.4234$US3.2646@okepread03, Rocky Top wrote:

So then which one is the Command Module that is attached to the
Soyuz in the NASM in DC? I thought it would be the ASTP unit.

CM-105, an acoustic test article.

http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu...lo/cm-105.html

(where's the Soyuz from? I remember being quite surprised at what a
Soyuz actually looked like when I visited...)

Also at the NASM is CM-107 (which is given a rather prominent display
spot, for some minor reason) and CM-118; Apollo 11 and Skylab 4
respectively.

The NASM also owns CM-011, which I believe flew unmanned; this is on
display out at Dulles.

Damn, I want to visit again, now. And see the ME-262, I missed it last
time...

--
-Andrew Gray

In article EtQzb.4234$US3.2646@okepread03, Rocky Top wrote:

So then which one is the Command Module that is attached to the
Soyuz in the NASM in DC? I thought it would be the ASTP unit.

CM-105, an acoustic test article.

http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu...lo/cm-105.html

(where's the Soyuz from? I remember being quite surprised at what a
Soyuz actually looked like when I visited...)

Also at the NASM is CM-107 (which is given a rather prominent display
spot, for some minor reason) and CM-118; Apollo 11 and Skylab 4
respectively.

The NASM also owns CM-011, which I believe flew unmanned; this is on
display out at Dulles.

Damn, I want to visit again, now. And see the ME-262, I missed it last
time...

--
-Andrew Gray

Andrew Gray wrote:

Damn, I want to visit again, now. And see the ME-262, I missed it last
time...


If it's where I remember it, it's next to the XP-80 Shooting Star and
the XP-59 Airacomet; and they have a replica of the turbojet from the
He-178 there also. You did better than I did; I managed to miss the main
W.W. II section! Does anyone know if (or when) they intend to get the
Horton/Gotha 229 and Me-163 Komet restored and on display?

Pat

In article , Pat Flannery wrote:


Andrew Gray wrote:

Damn, I want to visit again, now. And see the ME-262, I missed it last
time...


If it's where I remember it, it's next to the XP-80 Shooting Star and
the XP-59 Airacomet; and they have a replica of the turbojet from the
He-178 there also.

Yeah, but they're just not as neat. The -262 is one of those planes that
looks like it should be flying, and there's not many of those.

You did better than I did; I managed to miss the main
W.W. II section! Does anyone know if (or when) they intend to get the
Horton/Gotha 229 and Me-163 Komet restored and on display?

To the best of my knowledge, if that Go-229's the one I think it is,
it's not really going to look like much once it's restored - isn't that
the "fuselage" only, no wings in existence? Still, I'd like to see it...

(Is fuselage the right word? You'd assume so, but I never saw
definitions for "flying wing" aircraft...)

Maybe they'll be putting it in the new building? I saw a list of the
projected contents somewhere, but damned if I can find it again.

--
-Andrew Gray

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:52:56 +0000, Andrew Gray wrote:

In article , Pat Flannery wrote:


To the best of my knowledge, if that Go-229's the one I think it is,
it's not really going to look like much once it's restored - isn't that
the "fuselage" only, no wings in existence? Still, I'd like to see it...

No, they have at least one of the wings
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.com/sp.../photos/78.jpg
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.com/sp.../photos/88.jpg