KSC Apollo question

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.

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-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

Rick DeNatale wrote:

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


I think the other wing is behind the first one, but turned 180 degrees
in relation to it.

Pat

The command module that sits in the Saturn V center, is a real space craft but was never used, just like the ones in Houston and Huntsville, Alabama.They were scheduled for future flights, but the program was cancelled before they could be used.

Mike N
KSC, Florida



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

"MikePSJ" wrote:
The command module that sits in the Saturn V center, is a real space craft
but was never used, just like the ones in Houston and Huntsville, Alabama.

Mike --

There are a couple of CMs in the Saturn V Center at KSC. One, sitting by
itself, was most definitely "used". It was the ASTP CM
(http://www.balettie.com/gallery/view...KSC&id=ASTP_ca
psule). The other, to which I think you're referring, is a boilerplate CM
that's displayed connected to a SM underneath the entire Saturn V stack
display.

The JSC visitor's center has the Apollo 17 CM "America", but again... I
think you're probably referring to the CM out on the Saturn V sitting on the
grass. That one is another mockup. Huntsville has the Apollo 16 CM
"Casper".

Roger
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Roger Balettie
former Flight Dynamics Officer
Space Shuttle Mission Control
http://www.balettie.com/