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Spacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Command and Service Modules, Apollo #105, ASTP Mockup, 1960s

Command and Service Modules, Apollo #105, ASTP Mockup, 1960s
This Block II Apollo Command and Service Module combination (CSM 105), manufactured by North American Rockwell, was originally used for vibration and acoustic tests

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Paraglider Research Vehicle (Paresev) 1-A, Gemini, 1960s. Creator: NASA

Paraglider Research Vehicle (Paresev) 1-A, Gemini, 1960s. Creator: NASA
From 1962 to 1964, NASA used the Paresev to develop the technology for landing the two-man Gemini capsule on land, instead of parachuting into the ocean, as had been done in Project Mercury

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Lifting Body, M2-F3, 1960s. Creator: Northrop Norair

Lifting Body, M2-F3, 1960s. Creator: Northrop Norair
This M2-F3 lifting body was a heavyweight, wingless lifting body research craft of the 1960s. This F3 is the F2 re-built after a landing accident seriously damaged the M2-F2

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Mercury Capsule, 1959. Creator: NASA

Mercury Capsule, 1959. Creator: NASA
On September 9, 1959, NASA launched this unoccupied Mercury spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital flight that lasted 13 minutes

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Biocapsule, Primate, 1959. Creator: Army Ballistic Missile Agency

Biocapsule, Primate, 1959. Creator: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
This biocapsule carried Able, a female rhesus monkey, during the first flight to recover a primate from space. On May 28, 1959

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Lunar Module #2, Apollo, ca. 1969. Creator: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

Lunar Module #2, Apollo, ca. 1969. Creator: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed by Grumman to ferry two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back

Background imageSpacecraft Manned Test Vehicles Collection: Lunar Roving Vehicle, Qualification Test Unit, 1970s. Creator: Boeing Aircraft Co

Lunar Roving Vehicle, Qualification Test Unit, 1970s. Creator: Boeing Aircraft Co
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was a battery powered " dune buggy" taken to the moon on Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17


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