Tag: CSM

Apollo 9 Storyboard

Launch Day

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Top Left: Flight Crew Preparation
Top Right: Orbital Insertion
Middle Left: 103 N. Mile Orbit
Middle Right: Separation
Bottom Left: Docking
Bottom Right: Docked SPS Burn

Second Day

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Top Left: Landmark Tracking
Top Right: Pitch Maneuver
Bottom Left: Yaw-Roll Maneuver
Bottom Right: High Apogee Orbits

Third Day

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Left: Crew Transfer
Right: LM System Evaluation

Fourth Day

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Top Left: Camera
Top Right: Day-Night EVA
Bottom Left: Golden Slippers
Bottom Right: TV – Texas, Florida

Fifth Day

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Top Left: Vehicles Undocked
Top Right: Burns For Rendezvous
Middle Left: Maximum Separation
Middle Right: APS Burn
Bottom Left: Formation Flying And Docking
Bottom Right: LM Jettison Ascent Burn

Sixth Thru Ninth Days

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Left: Service Propulsion Burns
Right: Landmark Sightings, Photograph Special Tests

Tenth Day

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Top Left: CM/SM Separation
Top Right: Re-Entry

Image credit: NASA JSC
Images: NASA Images

Snoopy & Charlie Brown

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S71-39481 (July 1971) — An artist’s concept showing TRW’s small lunar subsatellite being ejected into lunar orbit from the SIM bay of the Apollo 15 Service Module. The 80-pound satellite will remain in orbit a year or more, carrying scientific experiments to study space in the vicinity of the moon. The satellite carries three experiments: S-Band Transponder; Particle Shadows/Boundary Layer Experiment; and Subsatellite Magnetometer Experiment. The subsatellite is housed in a container resembling a rural mailbox, and when deployed is spring-ejected out-of-plane at 4 fps with a spin rate of 140 rpm. After the satellite booms are deployed, the spin rate is stabilized at about 12 rpm. The subsatellite is 31 inches long and has a 14 inch hexagonal diameter. The exact weight is 78.5 pounds. The folded booms deploy to a length of five feet. Subsatellite electrical power is supplied by a solar cell array outputting 25 watts for dayside operation and a rechargeable silver-cadmium battery for nightside passes.

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S73-27508 (6 June 1973) — An artist’s concept showing astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Skylab 2 commander, attempting to free the solar array system wing on the Orbital Workshop during extravehicular activity at the Skylab 1 & 2 space station cluster in Earth orbit. The astronaut in the background is Joseph P. Kerwin, Skylab 2 science pilot. Here, Conrad is pushing up on the Beam Erection Tether (BET) to raise the stuck solar panel. The solar wing is only partially deployed; an aluminum strap is believed to be holding it down. Note the cut aluminum angle. Attach points for the BET are on the vent module of the solar array beam. The other end of the BET is attached to the “A” frame supporting the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) which is out of view. The aluminum strapping is to be out first, freeing the solar array beam. Then, if the beam does not automatically deploy, Conrad will attempt to help by pulling on the BET. The automatic openers may have become too cold to open without assistance. A deployed solar panel of the ATM is at upper left. The EVA is scheduled for Thursday, June 7th. This concept is by artist Paul Fjeld. Photo credit: NASA,br

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Art Concepts

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S73-37274 (1973) — An artist’s concept illustrating how the Skylab 4 astronauts will observe, through the scientific airlock of the Orbital Workshop, the passing of the newly-discovered Comet Kohoutek. The favorable location of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit will help provide a comprehensive investigation of the nature and evolution of the coma and tails as the comet approaches, passes, and recedes from the sun. Photo credit: NASA

Image credit: NASA JSC
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Art Concepts

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S75-21432 (March 1975) — An artist’s concept illustrating a scene during the June 7, 1973 Skylab 2 extravehicular activity in Earth orbit when astronauts Joseph P. Kerwin (larger figure) and Charles Conrad Jr. cut the aluminum strapping which prevented the Skylab Orbital Workshop solar array system wing from deploying. The solar panel was successfully deployed. The painting is by artist Paul Fjeld. The action portrayed here is about two to four seconds after using the beam erection tether, the two crewmen broke the frozen SAS beam actuators. This artistic effort took weeks to research and a day and a half to paint. Fjeld said that he needed some hundred or so photographs to get all the details for the painting. He struggled through about 300 pages of transcripts from the flight. Also, he used several pages of teleprinter messages which were the actual instructions on the EVA that the two astronauts used in flight. Photo credit: NASA

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AAP Cluster

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Parasol Thermal Shield

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Skylab

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The Incomparable Gary Meyer

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Image source: Mike Acs