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Apollo Drop Testing

Drop testing for the Apollo capsule’s return to earth. Cool guys do look at explosions, apparently. (vía 14 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Inside Project LOLA

Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars. (vía 13 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Hand-Painted Simulation

Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator. (vía 12 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

LOLA Simulator

This was a 20-foot sphere which simulated for the astronauts what the surface of the moon would look like from 200 miles up. Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. (vía 11 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Tunnel Vision

The MORL-Saturn IB launch combination undergoes aerodynamic testing in the 8-Foot Transonic Tunnel in October 1965.” Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), p. 302. (vía 10 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Night Practice

Lunar landing at night at Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF). (vía 9 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Test subject wearing the pressurized “space” suit for the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located at the Lunar Landing Facility. The purpose of this simulator was to study the subject while walking, jumping or running. (vía 4 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Lunar Rover, Driving School

Two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission collect soil samples during a simulation of lunar surface extravehicular activity in the Taos, New Mexico, area. Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, is using a scoop. Astronaut David R. Scott (right), commander, is holding a sample bag. On the left is a Lunar Roving Vehicle trainer. (vía 44 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Prime crew for the Apollo VII mission practice water egress procedures with full-scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. In the water at right is Astronaut Edward H. White foreground and Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee. In raft near the spacecraft is Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. NASA swimmers are in the water to assist in the practice session that took place at Ellington AFB, near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. (vía 16 | From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Co.Design: business innovation design)

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