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Image credit: NASA Neil A. Armstrong, commander for the Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission, practices for the historic event in a lunar module simulator in the Flight Crew Training Building at Kennedy.
The Lunar Module Simulator, including the telescope, had been transferred to the Smithsonian in 1974 but, because of its size, remained in storage at the Kennedy Space Center for nearly 25 years.
A second load simulator assembly is used at GAEC (plant 14) for development of the LEM Electrical Power Subsystem (EPS). In addition, this manual contains operational data for the Load Simulator ...
Altoona Area Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education Mark Harrington and High school Principal Andrew Neely (right) test the lunar lander simulator at the Neil Armstrong Planetarium on Friday.
Come see inside the Lunar Module using 3D animation. The Apollo Lunar Module was the part of the Apollo Spacecraft that landed on the moon. The LM was split up into two parts - the ascent stage ...
Apollo 13 would later have one of their capsule’s oxygen tanks explode on the way to the moon, Duke worked in a lunar module simulator to help bring the three astronauts on that mission home safely.
Inside the simulator, you can even see the lithium hydroxide canisters which filter carbon dioxide out of the air in the lunar module.
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, passed away Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing.