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Gavin Price
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Mercury, Gemini, Apollo & X-15
2,900 feet long!
The hydrodynamics testing facility at Langley.
Dynamic plane models could be towed through this facility at 80MPH and cause the model to take off from the water.
January 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The tip of the spear 👌🏻
January 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Burn that fucking site to the ground.
December 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Source: Milton Thompson
December 10, 2024 at 8:59 PM
“We had it made in the shade”.
Pete Conrad reflecting on the moment Al Bean read out the Landing Point Designator angels which enabled him to recognise the snowman cluster of craters.
December 9, 2024 at 8:23 PM
OTD in 72 Fe, Fi, FO, Fum & Phooey were launched on the final Apollo Lunar mission. Apparently there were also 3 humans travelling with them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Daddy’s lil monster waiting for his chicken from the takeaway 😬
November 28, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Here are a couple from when Becky’s grandma visited 😀
Everything ok over there?
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Look at this mad bastard documenting the rollout of Skylab from the top of the VAB. Doesn’t need guardrails as the photographer is only 525 feet high 😂
November 24, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Radio Corporation America engineers would visit MSC to update them on progress they were making with the rover comms unit.
RCA artist, Jim Burns, would slip in some humorous sketches for them to discover 😅
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
The EVA handles on the outside of the Command Module contained radioactive material. Small disks, containing Promethium 147, would light up and were situated inside the mounting points of the handles to assist with emergency EVA transfer.
November 24, 2024 at 12:43 PM
2 of the Saturn V mobile launchers watch on from their parking sites at KSC.
They sit on 6 mounting points, which are replicated in each high bay in the VAB and at each launch pad.
November 22, 2024 at 5:14 PM
From the museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
David Jennings (Hamilton Standard - Apollo suit backpack) drew inspiration from earlier Royal Air Force designs.
November 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
6 miles of tubing had to be inspected in the first stage of the Saturn V prior to it being shipped to KSC.
November 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Superb view looking down on the massive Saturn V first stage whilst it is about to be hoisted and rotated in the transfer aisle.
You can also see the launch platform and the V shaped blast deflector in the high bay.
November 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM