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Rice University Accepts Expl …
During the half-time ceremon …
10/10/09
Description During the half-time ceremonies of the Rice vs. Navy football game Oct. 10, 2009, Johnson Space Center Director Mike Coats presented Rice University President David Leebron with the Ambassador of Exploration Award that was presented posthumously to President John F. Kennedy. From left to right are Rep. Pete Olsen (R-TX), Rice University President David Leebron and JSC Director Michael Coats holding the award. On July 20, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA honored President Kennedy with the award for his vision and leadership in landing a man on the moon. The Kennedy family has selected Rice University to house and publicly display the award at Fondren Library. President Kennedy called for a national initiative to go to the moon during a speech given at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962. Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Harnett
Date 10/10/09
Aldrin Looks Back at Tranqui …
Title Aldrin Looks Back at Tranquility Base
Full Description Astronaut Edwin E."Buzz" Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon. He has just deployed the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP). In the foreground is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP), beyond it is the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LR-3), in the center background is the United States flag, in the left background is the black and white lunar surface television camera, in the far right background is the Lunar Module "Eagle". Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date 07/20/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Aldrin Next to Solar Wind Ex …
Title Aldrin Next to Solar Wind Experiment
Full Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. In the right background is the Lunar Module "Eagle." On Aldrin's right is the Solar Wind Composition (SWC) experiment already deployed. This photograph was taken by Neil A. Armstrong with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date 07/20/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Mission Control Celebrates A …
Title Mission Control Celebrates After Conclusion of the Apollo 11 Lunar
Full Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center, showing the flight controllers celebrating the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date 07/24/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 11 Celebration at Mis …
Title Apollo 11 Celebration at Mission Control
Full Description NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. From left foreground Dr. Maxime A. Faget, MSC Director of Engineering and Development, George S. Trimble, MSC Deputy Director, Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director fo Flight Operations, Julian Scheer (in back), Assistant Adminstrator, Office of Public Affairs, NASA HQ., George M. Low, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC, Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director, and Charles W. Mathews, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA HQ.
Date 07/24/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 11 Crew During Traini …
Title Apollo 11 Crew During Training Exercise
Full Description Two members of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission participate in a simulation of deploying and using lunar tools on the surface of the Moon during a training exercise on April 22, 1969. Astronaut Buzz (Aldrin Jr. on left), lunar module pilot, uses a scoop and tongs to pick up a soil sample. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, holds a bag to receive the sample. In the background is a Lunar Module mockup.
Date 04/22/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 11 Crew in Raft befor …
Title Apollo 11 Crew in Raft before Recovery
Full Description The Apollo 11 crew await pickup by a helicopter from the USS Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The fourth man in the life raft is a United States Navy underwater demolition team swimmer. All four men are wearing Biological Isolation Garments (BIG). The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia," with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. splashed down at 11:49 a.m. (CDT), July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet.
Date 07/24/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Neil Armstrong On The Moon
Title Neil Armstrong On The Moon
Full Description Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo ll mission commander, at the modular equipment storage assembly (MESA) of the Lunar Module "Eagle" on the historic first extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. took the photograph with a Hasselblad 70mm camera. Most photos from the Apollo 11 mission show Buzz Aldrin. This is one of only a few that show Neil Armstrong (some of these are blurry).
Date 07/20/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
President Nixon visits Apoll …
Title President Nixon visits Apollo 11 crew in quarantine
Full Description President Richard M. Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Already confined to the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) are (left to right) Neil A. Armstrong, commander, Michael Collins, command module pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 splashed down at 11:49 a.m. (CDT), July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the U.S.S. Hornet. The three crew men will remain in the MQF until they arrive at the Manned Spacecraft Center's (MSC) Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar-orbit.
Date 7/24/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Eagle" In Lunar Orbit
Title Eagle" In Lunar Orbit
Full Description The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle", in a landing configuration is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia". Inside the LM were Commander, Neil A. Armstrong, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. The long "rod-like" protrusions under the landing pods are lunar surface sensing probes. Upon contact with the lunar surface, the probes send a signal to the crew to shut down the descent engine.
Date 07/20/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Splashdown Celebration
Title Splashdown Celebration
Full Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), showing the flight controllers celebrating the splashdown and success of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
Date 07/24/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gold Olive Branch Left on th …
Title Gold Olive Branch Left on the Moon by Neil Armstrong
Full Description This is the gold replica of an olive branch, the traditional symbol of peace, left on the Moon's surface by Apollo 11 crewmembers. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, placed the small replica (less than half a foot in length) on the Moon. The gesture represented a wish for peace for all mankind.
Date 04/16/1971
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
The Apollo 11 Prime Crew
Title The Apollo 11 Prime Crew
Full Description Portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. From left to right they are: Commander, Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. On July 20th 1969 at 4:18 PM, EDT the Lunar Module "Eagle" landed in a region of the Moon called the Mare Tranquillitatis, also known as the Sea of Tranquillity. After securing his spacecraft, Armstrong radioed back to earth: "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed". At 10:56 p.m. that same evening and witnessed by a worldwide television audience, Neil Armstrong stepped off the "Eagle's landing pad onto the lunar surface and said: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He became the first human to set foot upon the Moon.
Date 05/01/1969
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo Program Leadership
Name of Image Apollo Program Leadership
Date of Image 1950-01-01
Full Description This historical photograph is of the Apollo Space Program Leaders. An inscription appears at the top of the image that states, ?Our deep appreciation for your outstanding contribution to the success of Apollo 11?, signed ?S?, indicating that it was originally signed by Apollo Program Director General Sam Phillips, pictured second from left. From left to right are, NASA Associate Administrator George Mueller, Phillips, Kurt Debus, Director of the Kennedy Space Center, Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Johnson Space Center, and Wernher von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magn …
Title Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
Explanation Buzz Aldrin [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.crew.html#buzzbio ], Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot and the second human to walk on the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950922.html ], described the lunar landscape as "a magnificent desolation". Dramatic pictures from the Apollo missions to the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ ] testify to this apt turn of phrase. Near the Apollo 17 landing site, Family Mountain (center background) and the edge of South Massif (left) frame the lunarscape in this photo [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS17/ 10075963.htm ] of astronaut Harrison Schmitt [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/ a17.crew.html#jackbio ] working alongside the lunar roving vehicle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990701.html ]. Schmitt and fellow astronaut Eugene Cernan [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/ a17.crew.html#genebio ] were the last to walk on [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000617.html ] this magnificent desolation.
Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Title Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Explanation Bright sunlight [ http://www.clavius.org/index.html ] glints and long dark shadows dramatize [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000224.html ] this image of the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11j.html ] taken by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first to walk on the Moon [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/lunar_missions.html ]. Pictured is the mission's lunar module, the Eagle, and spacesuited lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin unfurling [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020720.html ] a long sheet of foil also known as the Solar Wind Collector [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo11/ A11_Experiments_SWC.html ]. Exposed facing the Sun, the foil trapped atoms streaming outward in the solar wind, ultimately catching a sample of material from the Sun [ http://www.genesismission.org/index.html ] itself. Along with moon rocks and lunar soil samples, the solar wind collector was returned for analysis [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ SP-4214/ch9-6.html ] in earthbound laboratories.
Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magn …
Title Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
Explanation Buzz Aldrin [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a11.crew.html#buzzbio ], Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot and the second human to walk on the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950922.html ] described the lunar landscape as "a magnificent desolation". Dramatic pictures from the Apollo missions to the moon's surface [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/ ] testify to this apt turn of phrase. Near the Apollo 17 landing site, Family Mountain (center background) and the edge of South Massif (left) frame the lunarscape in this photo [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS17/10075963.htm ] of astronaut Harrison Schmitt [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a17.crew.html#jackbio ] working alongside the lunar roving vehicle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960223.html ]. Schmitt and fellow astronaut Eugene Cernan [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a17.crew.html#genebio ] were the last to walk on [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950909.html ] this magnificent desolation.
Happy Birthday Jules Verne
Title Happy Birthday Jules Verne
Explanation One hundred seventy-five years ago (on February 8th), Jules Verne [ http://JV.Gilead.org.il/FAQ/index.html ] was born [ http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/verne/certificate.html ] in Nantes, France. Inspired by [ http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gdevries/verne/verne.html ] a lifelong fascination with machines, Verne wrote [ http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/works.html ] visionary works about "Extraordinary Voyages" including such terrestrial travels as Around the World in 80 Days [ http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/ ], Journey to the Centre of the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021025.html ], and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [ http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ VerTwen.html ]. In 1865 he published the story of three adventurers who undertook a journey From the Earth to the Moon [ http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/index1.htm ]. Verne's characters rode a "projectile-vehicle" [ http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal113/ julesverne.jpg ] fired from a huge cannon constructed in Florida, USA. Does that sound vaguely familiar? A century later, the Saturn V rocket [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010525.html ] and NASA's Apollo program [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/ Apollo.html ] finally turned this work of fiction into fact, propelling adventuresome [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/ cover.html ] trios on what was perhaps Verne's most extraordinary voyage. This dramatic view [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/ kippsphotos/apollo.html ] shows the moonbound Apollo 11 space-vehicle riding top a Saturn V rocket as it blasts skyward. Launched from a spaceport [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/index.html ] in Florida, the Apollo 11 crew [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/ biographies.htm ] traveled to the moon and back again in 1969, making humanity's first landing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/ pao/History/alsj/ ].
A Spherule from the Earth's …
Title A Spherule from the Earth's Moon
Explanation How did this spherule come to be on the Moon? When a meteorite [ http://www.nineplanets.org/meteorites.html ] strikes the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/moon.html ], the energy of the impact [ http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast30nov_1.htm ] melts some of the splattering rock [ http://www.teachersource.com/micrometeorites.htm ], a fraction of which might cool into tiny glass beads [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010523.html ]. Many of these glass beads [ http://www.geocities.com/ladysveva/BeadHistory.html ] were present in lunar soil samples [ http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/lunar/lunar.htm ] returned to Earth by the Apollo missions [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/ ]. Pictured above [ http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/lunar-spherule.html ] is one such glass spherule [ http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/spherule ] that measures only a quarter of a millimeter [ http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/everyday.htm ] across. This spherule [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040210.html ] is particularly interesting because it has been victim to an even smaller impact. A miniature crater [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990711.html ] is visible on the upper left, surrounded by a fragmented area caused by the shockwaves [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010623.html ] of the small impact. By dating [ http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/geology/geo102/radio.htm ] many of these impacts, some astronomers estimate [ http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/lunar-spherule.html ] that cratering [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010428.html ] on our Moon increased [ http://www.sciencenews.org/20000311/fob3.asp ] roughly 500 million years ago and continues even today.
LLRV in flight and landing o …
Title LLRV in flight and landing on ramp
Description This 26-second video clip shows the LLRV flying and landing. The LLRV's, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and Bell Aerosystems Company, Niagra Falls, New York, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the Moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known simply as the NASA Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.) Success of the LLRV's led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, predecessor of the NASA Johnson Space Center. Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong -- first human to step onto the Moon's surface -- said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRV's. When Apollo planning was underway in 1960, NASA was looking for a simulator to profile the descent to the Moon's surface. Three concepts developed: an electronic simulator, a tethered device, and the ambitious Flight Research Center (FRC) contribution, a free-flying vehicle. All three became serious projects, but eventually the FRC's LLRV became the most significant one. Hubert Drake is credited with originating the idea, while Donald Bellman and Gene Matranga were senior engineers on the project, with Bellman the project manager. After conceptual planning and meetings with engineers from Bell Aerosystems, a company with experience in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, NASA issued Bell a $50,000 study contract in December 1961. Bell had independently conceived a similar, free-flying simulator, and out of this study came the headquarters' endorsement of the LLRV concept, resulting in a $3.6 million production contract awarded to Bell February 1, 1963, for delivery of the first of two vehicles for flight studies at the FRC within 14 months. Built of aluminum alloy trusses and shaped like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile. To do this, the LLRV had a General Electric CF-700-2V turbofan engine mounted vertically in a gimbal, with 4200 pounds of thrust. The engine got the vehicle up to the test altitude and was then throttled back to support five-sixths of the vehicle's weight, simulating the reduced gravity of the Moon. Two hydrogen peroxide lift rockets with thrust that could be varied from 100 to 500 pounds handled the LLRV's rate of descent and horizontal movement. Sixteen smaller hydrogen peroxide rockets, mounted in pairs, gave the pilot control in pitch, yaw, and roll. As safety backups on the LLRV, six 500-pound rockets could take over the lift function and stabilize the craft for a moment if the main jet engine failed. The pilot had a zero-zero ejection seat that would then lift him away to safety. The two LLRV's were shipped from Bell to the FRC in April 1964, with program emphasis on vehicle No. 1. It was first readied for captured flight, on a tilt-table affair. The scene then shifted to the old South Base area of Edwards. On the day of the first flight, October 30, 1964, research pilot Joe Walker flew it three times for a total of just under 60 seconds to a peak altitude of ten feet (three meters). Later flights were shared between Walker, another Center pilot named Don Mallick, the Army's Jack Kleuver, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, pilots Joseph Algranti and H.E. "Bud" Ream. NASA had accumulated enough data from the LLRV flight program at the FRC by mid-1966 to give Bell a contract to deliver three LLTVs at a cost of $2.5 million each. In December 1966 vehicle No. 1 was shipped to Houston, followed by No. 2 in January 1967, within weeks of its first flight. Modifications already made to No. 2 had given the pilot a three-axis side control stick and a more restrictive cockpit view, both features of the real Lunar Module that would later be flown by the astronauts down to the Moon's surface. When the LLRV's arrived at Houston, where research pilots would learn how to become LLTV instructor pilots, No. 2 had been flown just seven times while No. 1, the veteran, had a total of 198 flights. In December 1967, the first of the LLTV's joined the FRC's LLRV's to eventually make up the five-vehicle training and simulator fleet. Three of the five vehicles were later destroyed in crashes at Houston - LLRV No. 1 in May 1968 and two LLTV's, in December 1968 and January 1971. The two accidents in 1968, before the first lunar landing, did not deter Apollo program managers who enthusiastically relied on the vehicles for simulation and training. Donald "Deke" Slayton, then NASA's astronaut chief, said there was no other way to simulate a Moon landing except by flying the LLTV. LLRV No. 2 was eventually returned to Dryden, where it is on display as a silent artifact of the Center's contribution to the Apollo program.
Date 01.01.1960
LLRV liftoff from ramp
Title LLRV liftoff from ramp
Description This 24-second video clip shows the LLRV pilot strapping in and flying the vehicle. The LLRV's, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and Bell Aerosystems Company, Niagra Falls, New York, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the Moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known simply as the NASA Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.) Success of the LLRV's led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, predecessor of the NASA Johnson Space Center. Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong -- first human to step onto the Moon's surface -- said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRV's. When Apollo planning was underway in 1960, NASA was looking for a simulator to profile the descent to the Moon's surface. Three concepts developed: an electronic simulator, a tethered device, and the ambitious Flight Research Center (FRC) contribution, a free-flying vehicle. All three became serious projects, but eventually the FRC's LLRV became the most significant one. Hubert Drake is credited with originating the idea, while Donald Bellman and Gene Matranga were senior engineers on the project, with Bellman the project manager. After conceptual planning and meetings with engineers from Bell Aerosystems, a company with experience in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, NASA issued Bell a $50,000 study contract in December 1961. Bell had independently conceived a similar, free-flying simulator, and out of this study came the headquarters' endorsement of the LLRV concept, resulting in a $3.6 million production contract awarded to Bell February 1, 1963, for delivery of the first of two vehicles for flight studies at the FRC within 14 months. Built of aluminum alloy trusses and shaped like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile. To do this, the LLRV had a General Electric CF-700-2V turbofan engine mounted vertically in a gimbal, with 4200 pounds of thrust. The engine got the vehicle up to the test altitude and was then throttled back to support five-sixths of the vehicle's weight, simulating the reduced gravity of the Moon. Two hydrogen peroxide lift rockets with thrust that could be varied from 100 to 500 pounds handled the LLRV's rate of descent and horizontal movement. Sixteen smaller hydrogen peroxide rockets, mounted in pairs, gave the pilot control in pitch, yaw, and roll. As safety backups on the LLRV, six 500-pound rockets could take over the lift function and stabilize the craft for a moment if the main jet engine failed. The pilot had a zero-zero ejection seat that would then lift him away to safety. The two LLRV's were shipped from Bell to the FRC in April 1964, with program emphasis on vehicle No. 1. It was first, readied for captured flight on a tilt-table affair. The scene then shifted to the old South Base area of Edwards. On the day of the first flight, October 30, 1964, research pilot Joe Walker flew it three times for a total of just under 60 seconds to a peak altitude of ten feet (three meters). Later flights were shared between Walker, another Center pilot named Don Mallick, the Army's Jack Kleuver, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, pilots Joseph Algranti and H.E. "Bud" Ream. NASA had accumulated enough data from the LLRV flight program at the FRC by mid-1966 to give Bell a contract to deliver three LLTV's at a cost of $2.5 million each. In December 1966 vehicle No. 1 was shipped to Houston, followed by No. 2 in January 1967, within weeks of its first flight. Modifications already made to No. 2 had given the pilot a three-axis side control stick and a more restrictive cockpit view, both features of the real Lunar Module that would later be flown by the astronauts down to the Moon's surface. When the LLRV's arrived at Houston, where research pilots would learn how to become LLTV instructor pilots, No. 2 had been flown just seven times while No. 1, the veteran, had a total of 198 flights. In December 1967, the first of the LLTV's joined the FRC's LLRV's to eventually make up the five-vehicle training and simulator fleet. Three of the five vehicles were later destroyed in crashes at Houston - LLRV No. 1 in May 1968 and two LLTVs, in December 1968 and January 1971. The two accidents in 1968, before the first lunar landing, did not deter Apollo program managers who enthusiastically relied on the vehicles for simulation and training. Donald "Deke" Slayton, then NASA's astronaut chief, said there was no other way to simulate a Moon landing except by flying the LLTV. LLRV No. 2 was eventually returned to Dryden, where it is on display as a silent artifact of the Center's contribution to the Apollo program.
Date 01.01.1960
Apollo 10 photograph shows S …
Title Apollo 10 photograph shows Sea of Tranquility near Apollo Landing Site 2
Description This near vertical photograph taken from the Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules shows features typical of the Sea of Tranquility near Apollo Landing Site 2. The proposed landing area for Apollo 11 (Lunar Landing Site 2) is a relatively smooth maria area in the upper right quadrant of the photographed area. The prominent linear feature at left is Hypatia Rille (called "U.S. 1" by the Apollo 10 crew). The prominent crater centered in Hypatia Rille at top left is Moltke AC (code name "Chuck Hole"). Moltke, the prominent crater to the right of Hypatia Rille, is centered near 24.2 degrees east longitude, and 0.6 degrees south latitude.
Date 05.18.1969
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses for photograph beside deployed U.S. flag
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module "Eagle" is on the left. The footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date 07.20.1969
Close-up view of astronauts …
Title Close-up view of astronauts footprint in lunar soil
Description Close-up view of an astronaut's footprint in the lunar soil photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular acitivty on the moon.
Date 07.20.1969
View of docking target on Ap …
Title View of docking target on Apollo 11 Lunar Module from Command Module
Description A close-up view of the docking target on the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) photographed from the Command/Service Module (CSM) during the LM/CSM docking in lunar orbit.
Date 07.21.1969
View of Earth showing clouds …
Title View of Earth showing clouds over water taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers
Description This view of the Earth's surface showing clouds over water was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft following translunar injection.
Date 07.16.1969
View of Earth taken by Apoll …
Title View of Earth taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers
Description This view of Earth showing clouds over its surface was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar journey toward the Moon. The spacecraft was already about 10,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was taken. Portions of the land mass of North America and Central America can be seen.
Date 07.16.1969
View of Earth, showing Afric …
Title View of Earth, showing Africa, Europe and Asia taken by Apollo 11 crewmember
Description Most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar insertion. The spacecraft was about 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made.
Date 07.16.1969
View of Mexico and southwest …
Title View of Mexico and southwest United States from the Apollo 11 spacecraft
Description Near vertical view of Mexico, and a portion of the southwest United States, as photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its transearth journey homeward. The Pacific Ocean is at lower left, and the Gulf of Mexico at lower right center. Texas is at top right, California at top left. Portions of Arizona and New Mexico can be seen at top of picture.
Date 07.21.1969
View of Earth taken by Apoll …
Title View of Earth taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers
Description This view of Earth showing clouds over its surface was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar journey toward the Moon. The spacecraft was already about 10,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was taken. Portions of the land mass of North America and Central America can be seen.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
View of docking target on Ap …
Title View of docking target on Apollo 11 Lunar Module from Command Module
Description A close-up view of the docking target on the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) photographed from the Command/Service Module (CSM) during the LM/CSM docking in lunar orbit.
Date Taken 1969-07-21
View of Mexico and southwest …
Title View of Mexico and southwest United States from the Apollo 11 spacecraft
Description Near vertical view of Mexico, and a portion of the southwest United States, as photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its transearth journey homeward. The Pacific Ocean is at lower left, and the Gulf of Mexico at lower right center. Texas is at top right, California at top left. Portions of Arizona and New Mexico can be seen at top of picture.
Date Taken 1969-07-21
View of Earth, showing Afric …
Title View of Earth, showing Africa, Europe and Asia taken by Apollo 11 crewmember
Description Most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar insertion. The spacecraft was about 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Interior view of Apollo 11 L …
Title Interior view of Apollo 11 Lunar Module showing displays and controls
Description An interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module showing some of the displays and controls. Mounted in the Lunar Module window is a 16mm data acquisition camera which has a variable frame speed of 1, 6, 12 and 24 frames per second.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of Earth showing clouds …
Title View of Earth showing clouds over water taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers
Description This view of the Earth's surface showing clouds over water was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft following translunar injection.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
Apollo 10 photograph shows S …
Title Apollo 10 photograph shows Sea of Tranquility near Apollo Landing Site 2
Description This near vertical photograph taken from the Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules shows features typical of the Sea of Tranquility near Apollo Landing Site 2. The proposed landing area for Apollo 11 (Lunar Landing Site 2) is a relatively smooth maria area in the upper right quadrant of the photographed area. The prominent linear feature at left is Hypatia Rille (called "U.S. 1" by the Apollo 10 crew). The prominent crater centered in Hypatia Rille at top left is Moltke AC (code name "Chuck Hole"). Moltke, the prominent crater to the right of Hypatia Rille, is centered near 24.2 degrees east longitude, and 0.6 degrees south latitude.
Date Taken 1969-05-18
View of plaque Apollo 11 ast …
Title View of plaque Apollo 11 astronauts left on moon
Description Closeup view of the plaque which the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the moon in commemoration of the historic lunar landing mission. The plaque was attached to the ladder on the landing gear strut on the descent stage of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. The plaque was covered with a thin sheet of stainless steel during flight.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Flag of the U.S. deployed on …
Title Flag of the U.S. deployed on surface of the Moon
Description The flag of the United States, deployed on the surface of the Moon, dominates this photograph taken from inside the Lunar Module. The footprints of Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. stand out clearly. In the far background is the deployed black and white lunar surface television camera which televised the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Crater photographed by Apoll …
Title Crater photographed by Apollo 11 crew near landing site
Description This crater which was located near the point the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon was photographed by the Apollo 11 astronauts during their lunar surface extravehicular activity. Dark shadows obscure much of the crater wall in the background. The object in the foreground is the Apollo 11 35mm stereo close-up camera.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Components of the Early Apol …
Title Components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP)
Description Two components of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) are seen deployed on the lunar surface in this view photographed from inside the Lunar Module. In the far background is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP), and to the right and closer to the camera is the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LR-3). The footprints of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. are very distinct in the lunar soil.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deplo …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deploying Solar Wind Composition experiment
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Aldrin has just deployed the Solar Wind Composition experiment, a component of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP).
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of footpad of Apollo 11 …
Title View of footpad of Apollo 11 Lunar Module as it rested on lunar surface
Description A close-up view of a footpad of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module as it rested on the surface of the Moon. The stick-like protruding object is a lunar surface sensing probe. This photograph was take with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the extravehicular activity of Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on July 20, 1969.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View form Lunar Module of su …
Title View form Lunar Module of surface of the moon near where LM touched down
Description This excellent view from the right-hand window of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) shows the surface of the Moon in the vicinity of where the LM touched down. Numerous small rocks and craters can be seen between the LM and the lunar horizon.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin after …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin after deployment of EASEP on surface of moon
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon. He has just deployed the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP). In the foreground is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSEP), beyond it is the Laser Ranging RetroReflector (LR-3), in the center background is the United States flag, in the left background is the black and white lunar surface television camera, in the far right background is the Lunar Module. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Shadow of the Apollo 11 Luna …
Title Shadow of the Apollo 11 Lunar module silhouetted against Moon's surface
Description The black shadow of the Apollo 11 Lunar module is silhouetted against the Moon's surface in this photograph taken from inside the lunar module. The lunar surface extravehicular activity of Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. was conducted on July 20, 1969. Impressions in the lunar soil made by the lunar boots of the two astronauts are clearly visible.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Close-up view of astronauts …
Title Close-up view of astronauts footprint in lunar soil
Description Close-up view of an astronaut's footprint in the lunar soil photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular acitivty on the moon.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of approach to Apollo L …
Title View of approach to Apollo Landing Site 2 in southwestern Sea of Tranquility
Description The approach to Apollo Landing Site 2 in southwestern Sea of Tranquility is seen in this photograph taken from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) in lunar orbit. When this picture was made, the LM was still docked to the Command and Service Modules. Site 2 is located just right of center at the edge of darkness. The crater Maskelyne is the large one at the lower right. Hypatia Rille (U.S.1) is at upper left, with the crater Moltke just to the right (north) of it. Sidewinder Rille and Diamondback Rille extend from left to right across the center of the picture. This view looks generally west.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View Apollo 11 Lunar Module …
Title View Apollo 11 Lunar Module as it rested on lunar surface
Description A close-up view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module as it rested on the surface of the Moon. This photograph was take with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the extravehicular activity of Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on July 20, 1969.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deplo …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deploying the EASEP on surface of moon
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed deploying the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon. Here, he is deploying the Passive Seismic Experiments Package (PSEP). Already deployed is the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (LR-3), which can be seen to the left and further in the background. In the center background is the Lunar Module (LM). A flag of the United States is deployed near the LM. In the far left background is the deployed black and white lunar surface television camera. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with the 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses …
Title Astronaut Edwin Aldrin poses for photograph beside deployed U.S. flag
Description Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module "Eagle" is on the left. The footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
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