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CM photo ID?
Afternoon all.
I vaguely recognise the background in this photograph - I've probably seen photographs taken in the same museum before. However, I'm fairly sure it's not the NASM, and the CM isn't Columbia - can anyone verify which one it is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ApolloCmd.JPG (labelled as "The Apollo 11 CM, "Columbia", in the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC". Unless they've changed the display in the last couple of years, I have my doubts...) -- -Andrew Gray |
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"Andrew Gray" wrote in message . .. Afternoon all. I vaguely recognise the background in this photograph - I've probably seen photographs taken in the same museum before. However, I'm fairly sure it's not the NASM, and the CM isn't Columbia - can anyone verify which one it is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ApolloCmd.JPG (labelled as "The Apollo 11 CM, "Columbia", in the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC". Unless they've changed the display in the last couple of years, I have my doubts...) Looks like a boilerplate to me, definitely not a post-reentry appearance to it. The hardware looks incomplete for a flight model, also. Location looks like it's in the Dulles annex. There's supposed to be a boilerplate CM out there that was used for Navy recovery training. -Kim- |
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Andrew Gray wrote: Afternoon all. I vaguely recognise the background in this photograph - I've probably seen photographs taken in the same museum before. However, I'm fairly sure it's not the NASM, and the CM isn't Columbia - can anyone verify which one it is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ApolloCmd.JPG It's a boilerplate at the Dulles Annex. Here's another view of it: http://www.thespacereview.com/gallery/4/8 Definitely not Columbia. It's got the hatch still attached, and it's obviously never entered the atmosphere at 25,000 mph. |
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On 2005-04-02, Kim Keller wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ApolloCmd.JPG Looks like a boilerplate to me, definitely not a post-reentry appearance to it. The hardware looks incomplete for a flight model, also. Location looks like it's in the Dulles annex. There's supposed to be a boilerplate CM out there that was used for Navy recovery training. The Field Guide lists: Apollo 011 SA-202 Apollo 11 Columbia Apollo Skylab 4 The latter two were certainly in the main building as of a few years back. SA-202 was a suborbital test, and it doesn't look like it's re-entered, as you say. So probably not that, either. (Actually, on further reading that's an out-of-date summary; it's now on the USS Hornet museum in California) The NASM is also listed as having CSM 105AV - used for acoustic tests, and now in the ASTP display. So not that... Aha! http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/...oilerplate.htm Apollo Boilerplate 1220/1228 Listed on http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarh...acts_space.cfm as "on display". The Field Guide has -1220 as in North Carolina, and 1228 as "reported salvaged"; this looks like it... Thanks, -- -Andrew Gray |
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On 2 Apr 2005 17:37:06 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote: Afternoon all. I vaguely recognise the background in this photograph - I've probably seen photographs taken in the same museum before. However, I'm fairly sure it's not the NASM, and the CM isn't Columbia - can anyone verify which one it is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ApolloCmd.JPG (labelled as "The Apollo 11 CM, "Columbia", in the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC". Unless they've changed the display in the last couple of years, I have my doubts...) The Mercury boilerplate capsule behind the Apollo command module is the one the rode on the Big Joe Atlas booster flight in September 1959. http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu...ry/bigjoe.html Rusty |
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