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All of the Lunar Modules flown on the Apollo missions were built right here on the Island by Grumman; not sure what the story is with this particular one, but the unit built for Apollo 18 (which was cancelled) is on display in another (very dark) room... couldn't get a decent picture of it. I like this, though: shows the structure of the LM very well.

     




I love stuff like this.Some of the many fine little artifacts on display here... Lunar Module manuals. Note the thickness of the guidance sustem "study guide"- I wonder what the total weight of all the paper checklists and manuals was aboard those Apollo flights...






     
This is Command Module 002, built by Rockwell in California and flown unmanned atop a "Little Joe" in 1966 to test the "escape tower", the rocket on the nose of the Saturn spacecraft designed to pull the CM and its crew safely away from a malfunctioning booster. It worked fine, and the system was never needed on any manned flight. The parachutes displayed here were recovered with Apollo 15's CM- they've been to lunar orbit and back.







A proposal for a surface EVA suit... LOL!! Even in low gravity, this would've been a disaster. Looks pretty top-heavy...and how they'd exit and enter the LM in this thing is anybody's guess. They had enough trouble as it was with the suits and packs that were used...
 But at one time, nobody knew for sure if  astronauts would be able to successfully walk around on the Moon. This must've been a very early proposal...

     
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Nice spacesuit

did you get to listen to the speaker at the lunar module?  I heard him once, it was very interesting.

Interesting space suit...I agree, I don't think it was practical .

Great pictures rotty....thanks .


Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Some very interesting Shots there Rotty, well done.

You captured some great ones.

Cheers, and thanks very much for sharing.

James

too bad the Apollo 18 didn't come out though.  It is quite an impressive exhibit.  One little thing I learned when I was there is that the way the astronauts knew when to cut power to the engine on landing was a 5 ft long stick on one of the landing pads, that win it touched it sent a signal to the cockpit, and then when they landed it broke under the pad.

Its amazing what you can learn at an airmuseum.