SPACE CENTER USA

Taken at Johnson Space Center south of Houston, Texas. The building contains a full-scale Saturn V/Apollo command module and is visible on Google Earth. The vehicle inside is the size of the picture painted on the side of the building.


The Saturn V, taken from the base of the first stage. To give a sense of scale, there is a tour group barely visible at the other end of the building.


A "Little Joe" booster with an Apollow command module and escape system on top. The system was built as a testbed to verify the escape system in a high-altitude emergency situation. In the actual test, the Little Joe booster itself malfunctioned and the escape system functioned as designed, bringing the Apollo capsule to a safe landing.


[Personal Note] Those were exciting days, even though I was only peripherally involved in Apollo and its precursors.