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- From: george.gassaway@the-matrix.com (George Gassaway)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Apollo Program photos
- Message-ID: <11748.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:52:00 GMT
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- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: george.gassaway@the-matrix.com (George Gassaway)
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- I am currently researching Apollo-7 for the purposes of creating and
- documenting detailed drawings of the Saturn-IB launch vehicle. This is for
- the purpose of building detailed scale models.
-
- A number of details have been documented by drawings and other materials
- obtained from Marshall. And some from photos taken of the two Saturn IB's
- on display (one in north Alabama [I-65 welcome center], and one at KSC).
-
- But, some details are still not resolved, mostly related to the spacecraft
- (especially boost cover) and portions of the launch vehicle that are not
- accurately represented in the two display vehicles.
-
- So, the point of this, I'm trying to locate photographs taken of the
- actual Apollo-7 vehicle and spacecraft (Service Module, and the boost
- cover/escape system). I do have some photos which show the whole vehicle
- on the pad from top to bottom, which are useful, but no detailed closer-up
- photos (some details are hinted at in such photos, but no way to see what
- the details really are).
-
- I know that NASA created some videodiscs about 10 years ago or so that
- catalogued thousands and thousands of photos, I think one disc was
- dedicated to the Apollo program itself. I would like to obtain such a disc
- to be able to go through it photo by photo to locate the kinds that would
- be useful, assuming that the photos on ths video disc did include the
- photo number for each, then I could use those numbers to get good quality
- 8 x 10 photographs printed by the appropriate NASA photocontractor.
-
- I asked about this on NASA Spacelink, and got a response indicating the
- file to look in which listed commercial material. Unfortunately, the file
- listings did not seem to have what I was looking for, the closest thing
- was an Apollo-17 videodisc that included videomovie footage and then some
- limited still photos. Of course, Apollo-17 was launched by a Saturn-V,
- while what I'm looking for is Apollo-7 which was launched by a Saturn-IB.
-
- Does anyone know of who might have Apollo program videodiscs that have the
- kind of numerous photo stills (with the critically important photo
- numbers) I'm talking about? Or suggest some other NASA branch to ask?
-
- Of course, ideally, I'd love to go somewhere to look through the actual
- photo files in person, but even if I knew where it would be hard to
- justify doing so (I'm in the Birmingham, AL area). I'm hoping to find the
- right kind of videodisc of stills that will be almost the same, which at
- least 10 years ago WAS possible. I just hope such a videodisc still
- exists.
-
- Thanks for any info you can give.
-
- - George Gassaway
-
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- This copy of Freddie 1.2 is being evaluated.
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