Official emblem of the Apollo missions; test flight of the first Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV-1), project Apollo, August 1965-1966
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Official emblem of the Apollo missions; test flight of the first Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV-1), project Apollo, August 1965-1966
164 a “The Apollo emblem is a disc circumscribed by a band displaying the words Apollo and NASA. The center disc bears the large letter “A” with the constellation Orion positioned so its three central stars form the bar of the letter. To the right is a sphere of the Earth, with a sphere of the Moon in the upper left portion of the center disc. The face on the Moon represents the mythical God, Apollo. A double trajectory passes behind both spheres and the central stars” (original NASA caption for the photograph).
“Our God-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other men.” Gus Grissom (Jacobs, p. 129)
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The Bell Aerosystems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) was an Apollo Project era program to build a simulator for the Moon landings. The LLRV was used at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the Moon’s low gravity environment.
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NASAOfficial emblem of the Apollo missions; test flight of the first Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV-1), project Apollo, August 1965-1966Estimate: GBP 1,500 - 2,500
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