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Henry Crown Space Center opened in 1986. [1] The space center includes artifacts and interactive exhibits about space travel. Located in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft and Aurora 7 capsule.
In front of the center, a dummy "boilerplate" Apollo command capsule, BP-12, is on display. This was the first Apollo capsule to fly, [10] and is now owned by the City of Downey. [11] The center also owns Apollo Boilerplate BP-19A, [12] which is in storage as of 2018.
The Smithsonian Institute, working with Autodesk, has created a high-resolution 3D scan of "Columbia," the Apollo 11 command module that carried the astronauts to the moon.
The crew of Apollo 11 in quarantine after returning to Earth in July 1969, visited by President Nixon. The mobile quarantine facility (MQF) was a converted Airstream trailer used by NASA to quarantine astronauts returning from Apollo lunar missions for the first few days after splashdown. The MQF was on the aircraft carrier that picked up the ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology Archived December 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; Apollo Program Summary Report; Little Joe II Qualification Test Flight Report - September 1963 (PDF) Postlaunch Report for Little Joe II Mission A-001 - May 1964 (PDF) Photographs of BP-12 boilerplate in Downey, CA
AS-201 (Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1-A, or Apollo 1 prior to the 1967 pad fire), flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command and service module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. The spacecraft consisted of the second Block I command module and the first Block I service module.
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