This instrument panel controlled The Crewman Optical Alignment Sight (COAS) power and docking light controls for use in the critical maneuver of docking the Apollo Command Module with the Lunar Module. It is located just below the docking window on the right side of the main instrument panel. The COAS provided the Commander with gross […]
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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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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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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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The slow-scan, black-and-white television system used on Apollo 7 and Apollo 8 shot only 10-frames per second with 320 lines of resolution. In comparison, had the American NTSC television standard of 1968 been chosen—525 interlaced lines, 30 frames per second—ten times more bandwidth would have been required. Futuristic by 1968 standards, the ease of the
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This star chart panel was one of the metal guidance and control panels used at the navigation station in the lower equipment bay of the Command Module. This particular example was flown on Apollo 9 and comes from the Jim McDivitt collection. These panels were a quick reference to information required for spacecraft maneuvers made
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This locker, measuring 12.5″ x 22.75″ x 4.75″ (at top- tapering to 2,25″ at bottom) would mount in the upper section of the command module, above and behind the heads of the astronauts. This particular design was made for the later “Apollo Applications” missions (Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project). The markings on the inside of
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This Apollo–Soyuz Test Project DP Boost cue card measuring 2.25 x 4″ is directly from the Deke Slayton collection. On the reverse of the card is a museum inventory control number from the time that the card was on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, FL and the Air and Space Museum
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This oddly shaped cue card fit snugly into a particular spot on the command module control panel. The cue card provides quick instructions for problems faced by the crew. I really like this cue card because some of the issues it deals with – such as Oxygen, CO2, Glycol, and Cyro – uses instrument readouts
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