Apollo 11 (SA-506) almost done! The top and bottom of the stack are complete. Only the S-II (middle) stage and details need to be finished. I've transplanted the S-II from the other SA-500F model rocket for the photo. The CSM for this is a Realspace Models resin kit I've added to the top of the Revell 1/96 kit. New Ware brass and resin detail parts have been added to the SLA and will be used to make a properly detail S-II. #apollo #saturnv
Apollo Command and Service Module
Credit:- NASA, scanning credit to Kipp Teague & Ed Hengeveld. Michael L Hyde (c) 2014
Quoting from NASA Master Catalog Search for Apollo 10: Description This spacecraft was the second Apollo mission to orbit the Moon, and the first to travel to the Moon with the full Apollo spacecraft, consisting of the Command and Service Module (CSM-106, "Charlie Brown") and the Lunar Module (LM-4, "Snoopy"). The spacecraft mass of 28,834 kg is the mass of the CSM including propellants and expendables. The LM mass including propellants was 13,941 kg. The primary objectives of the mission were to demonstrate crew, space vehicle, and mission support facilities during a manned lunar mission and to evaluate LM performance in cislunar and lunar environment. The mission was a full "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, in which all operations except the actual lunar landing were performed. The flight carried a three man crew: Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Command Module (CM) Pilot John W. Young, and Lunar Module (LM) Pilot Eugene A. Cernan. After launch, the spacecraft was inserted into a 189.9 km x 184.4 km Earth parking orbit at 17:00:54 UT, followed by translunar injection after 1 1/2 orbits at 19:28:21 UT. The CSM separated from the Saturn V 3rd stage (S-IVB) at 19:51:42 UT, transposed, and docked with the LM at 20:06:37. After a three day cruise, Apollo 10 entered an initial 315.5 km x 110.4 km lunar orbit on 21 May 1969 at 20:44:54 UT, using a 356 sec. SPS burn. A second SPS burn lasting 19.3 seconds circularized the orbit to 113.9 km x 109.1 km. On 22 May Stafford and Cernan entered the LM and fired the SM reaction control thrusters to separate the LM from the CSM at 19:36:17 UT. The LM was put into an orbit to allow low altitude passes over the lunar surface, the closest approach bringing it to within 14 km of the Moon. All systems on the LM were tested during the separation including communications, propulsion, attitude control, and radar. Numerous close-up photographs of the Moon's surface, in particular the planned Apollo landing sites, were taken. The LM descent stage was jettisoned into lunar orbit. The LM and CSM rendezvous and redocking occurred 8 hours after separation at 03:22 UT on 23 May. Later on May 23 the LM ascent stage was jettisoned into solar orbit, and on 24 May at 10:25:29 UT after 31 lunar orbits the CSM rockets fired for trans-earth injection. CM-SM separation took place on 26 May at 16:22:26 UT and Apollo 10 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on 26 May 1969 at 16:52:23 UT (12:52:23 p.m. EDT) after a mission elapsed time of 192 hrs, 3 mins, 23 secs. The splashdown point was 15 deg 2 min S, 164 deg 39 min W, 400 miles east of American Samoa and 5.5 km (3.4 mi) from the recovery ship USS Princeton. All systems on both spacecraft functioned nominally, the only exception being an anomaly in the automatic abort guidance system aboard the LM. In addition to extensive photography of the lunar surface from both the LM and CSM, television images were taken and transmitted to Earth. The Apollo 10 Command Module "Charlie Brown" is on display at the Science Museum, London, England. The Apollo program included a large number of uncrewed test missions and 12 crewed missions: three Earth orbiting missions (Apollo 7, 9 and Apollo-Soyuz), two lunar orbiting missions (Apollo 8 and 10), a lunar swingby (Apollo 13), and six Moon landing missions (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). Two astronauts from each of these six missions walked on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Gene Cernan, and Harrison Schmitt), the only humans to have set foot on another solar system body. Total funding for the Apollo program was approximately $20,443,600,000.
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The original USB — Unified S-Band, a common communication channel used during the Apollo missions. With just 20 Watts, they could communicate with Houston from the moon. And a single antenna combined voice, television, command, tracking and ranging. From the Future Ventures’ 🚀 Space Collection. This fully redundant Command Module S-Band Amplifier output was routed to the High Gain and Omni-Directional antenna's on the CSM. It is stamped Serial No. 0006 Even today, this type of specialty vacuum tube is among the most efficient and compact types of RF amplifier. As a result, many high-tech satellites still feature these devices. This photo and detailed analysis come from the Ken Shirriff blog, which became popular with places like Hackaday: “How did the Apollo astronauts communicate 240,000 miles back to Earth? With an amplifier that was just 20 watts, built from special traveling-wave tubes. I look inside this amplifier in my latest blog post”
So odd to read through the Apollo 11 journal now... Translunar Phase At 003:15:23.0, the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage and transposed and docked with the LM at 003:24:03.7. The docked spacecraft were ejected from the S-IVB at 004:17:03.0, and a 2.93-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:40:01.72. A ground command for propulsive venting of residual propellants targeted the S-IVB to go past the Moon and into solar orbit. The lunar radius of closest approach of the S-IVB to the Moon was 2,763 n mi at 20:14 GMT on 19 July at 078:42. The point of closest approach to the lunar surface was 1,825 n mi. The orbital parameters after passing the from the lunar sphere of influence resulted in a solar orbit with an aphelion and perihelion of 82.000 million by 72.520 million n mi, a semi-major axis of 77,260 million n mi, an inclination to the ecliptic of 0.3836°, and a period of 342 days. The velocity increase relative to Earth from the lunar encounter was 0.367 n mi/sec. From the NASA Apollo flight journal [PD] This picture is in the Public Domain
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Galeriebeitrag Apollo 11 - CSM "Columbia" von Dragon, ein Modell gebaut von Bernhard Schrock in 1:72.
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