Since COVID has curtailed the in-person foot traffic, my rocket buddies Peter & Alexis Thoeny came by to shoot a whirlwind tour on video. We focus on some of the newer and topical items: flown artifacts from SpaceX and the earlier Mars programs and a lot of stuff that has been to the moon and back. I clearly get excited about the stories behind these heroic machines. Enjoy!
Some topics covered:
1:45 Apollo LM, X-15 and Astra engines
2:57 Salyut tank that crashed into Argentina
4:00 Apollo LM Ascent Engine valve assembly and Neil Armstrong’s nightmares
4:58 The Lunar Orbiter room — film lab in space
6:55 Observation platform from Soviet Almaz – a military space station with machine gun!
9:10 Soviet Buran panel and air scrubber
10:00 Apollo AS202 flown sextant
10:25 Soviet Luna 9 Anchor Petal
11:55 Viking Scientific Payload to detect life on Mars
15:30 Mars rock with trapped Martian air
16:49 Flown heat shields from Apollo and Gemini
18:20 Apollo Mission Control Deck
18:40 Flown Mercury Sigma-7 Logoed Panel
19:45 Wally Schirra’s flown Hasseblad Camera
21:20 Communications Headset used during the first Lunar Rover drive on the moon
22:20 “Apollo 14 Docking Ring”
24:20 Apollo CM Hatch
24:55 Flown Soyuz Instrument Panel
25:25 Flown Soviet Voskhod Spacecraft Hatch
26:35 Complete RL-10 Engine
27:00 Complete Apollo LM-2 Flight Computer
27:35 Apollo 17 LM Arm Rest for landing while standing, Apollo 13 uneaten meal, Buzz Aldrin’s EVA-flown flashlight
28:26 Apollo 16 LM COAS (heads up display)
29:10 John Young’s Cuff Checklist on his wrist during his lunar jump salute
29:55 Huge Slice of Moon Rock
31:10 the oldest volcanic rock, older than Earth itself.
33:30 Flown Aerocover from SpaceX F9R explosion
34:40 Planet Dove Satellite that survived the huge Antares Launch Explosion
36:00 Prototype build of the Apollo 11 flag,
37:15 The Lunar Rover room (Apollo 15 and 17 rover maps and Apollo 17 scissors)
38:26 Goddard rocket artifacts from 1926
38:50 Apollo 11 Command Module EVA handle and Buzz Aldrin’s lunar under-glove
40:30 Mercury Space Suit
40:40 SpaceX Flown DM-2 Hatch (first human flight)
41:45 Skylab Exercise Bike
43:18 Apollo LM Main Landing Leg
44:13 Engineering Design Notes for Apollo 11 LM
45:50 SpaceX SN8 Starship Test Flight Wreckage
47:35 Apollo CM Couch with Hand Controllers
And here are my flickr posts on many of the artifacts seen in the video.
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