This CM Panel 2F controls the Cryogenics and Environmental System controls and is positioned in front of the CM pilot and LM pilot. The panel contains cryogenic tank indicators, cabin fan switches, H2 and O2 heaters, O2 pressure, H2 and O2 fans, cabin temperature, and much more. This panel is block I, but shares many […]
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In this clip, I’m discussing the ideas in my book (written with Rich Jurek) Marketing the Moon. Besides the amazing photos we curated many never seen before, and the stories we tell from our dozens of interviews, there are lessons in the book for businesspeople. Direct link to the segment Business Lessons from the Apollo
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My favorite artifact in my collection is this fantastic Command Module Rotational Controller Handle used on Apollo 12, which I acquired from the personal collection of Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. It is a milled aluminum handle, approximately 4.5″ tall with a black “trigger” and indented finger grips. This “joystick” was used in
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This Apollo 17 T&D cue card was an important tool during the outbound journey from the earth to the moon. It was used to ensure the correct sequence of maneuvers to execute the transposition and docking of the Command /Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM) which for liftoff had been located in the
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My friend and fellow Apollo enthusiast Richard Jurek and I wrote a book to be published by MIT Press titled Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program. Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander and the last man to walk on the moon wrote the foreword to the book. Rich and I have been
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My wife Yukari Watanabe Scott and I commissioned this fantastic painting from Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Alan Bean. “Boy, you can sure move on this surface” Here is the story that Alan wrote describing the painting: Prior to our Apollo 12 mission in November 1969, Pete Conrad and I talked with Neil Armstrong
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This flown data file clip was originally from the collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin and was used on the historic Apollo 11 mission. The clip is 1.75″ x 2.25″ x 0.75″ and made of lightweight aluminum. It would have been used to hold charts and checklists during the mission. In the
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The Marquardt R-4D was developed as an attitude control thruster for the Apollo Service Module and Lunar Module. Sixteen engines similar to this one were mounted on the exterior of each lunar module in four quadruple clusters and sixteen on each service module. Because both the lunar module and service module were jettisoned during the
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This bracket was carried to the moon and used aboard the Lunar Module Snoopy during the Apollo 10 mission in May 1969. The L Bracket was the connection between the 16mm Maura Data Acquisition Camera and the LM Utility bracket. The bracket attached directly to the camera and the LM Utility (which could hold either
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At the Apollo 13 40th anniversary celebration at The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, I had an opportunity to meet and share a few words with “first man” Neil Armstrong. I wanted to memorialize my meeting with a photo, but there was nobody near us to snap it. So like a teenager, I shot a
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