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I remember watching these grainy images on a Black and White TV in primary school when it happened, now looking back I can scarcely believe the audacity of the folks at the time to think that they could get there and back safely based on the technology of the day?
I have since been to the Space Centre in Houston and been amazed at the facilities and the length they went to test every conceivable possibility – even to the point of building a Vacuum Testing facility 118ft tall big enough to take the full Command Module, rotate it, and apply heat equivalent to the sun’s rays and leave the astronauts in it for up to 8 days at time just to make sure it’s up to the job before sending it up – amazing stuff
Since its construction in 1965, NASA’s Space Environment Simulation Laboratory in Houston, Texas, has been the primary location for testing of flight hardware for the manned space program, space shuttle systems, and satellite systems. This 1968 photograph shows three astronauts entering Apollo Spacecraft 2TV-1 for an eight-day manned thermal-vacuum testing. (Official NASA photograph, June 11, 1968)
It’s worth checking out the fantastic archive photos at the Boston Globe?
A 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS) camera, mounted in a pod on a cargo door of a U.S. Air Force EC-135N aircraft photographed this event in the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch. The mated Saturn V second and third stages pull away from the expended first stage. Separation occurred at an altitude of about 38 miles, some 55 miles downrange from Cape Kennedy. (NASA) #
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