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NASA LM-7 the Lunar Module 'Aquarius', (Apollo 13)

The LTA-8 test project, run in the spring and fall of 1968, placed a test version of Grumman's Apollo Lunar Module (Lunar Module Test Article 8) inside the giant vacuum chamber B at NASA's Johnson Space Center to replicate the extreme environmental conditions the spacecraft would be subjected to in space. The mission patch includes the names of astronauts assigned to the first test run: Jim Irwin and John Bull.

2TV-1 was a crewed thermal vacuum chamber test of North American Rockwell's Block II Apollo Command and Service Module, performed from June 16 to 24, 1968. The test at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center set out to simulate a complete crewed Apollo mission as closely as possible.

The crew designed the mission patch to resemble the NASA "meatball" insignia, with the roadrunner symbolizing the fast pace of the Apollo program and the flightless nature of the ground-based 2TV-1 test. The Latin motto for the mission translates as "The Proud Bird with the Heavy Tail".

Apollo 11-Lem 5

Mission Objective:Verify operation of Lunar Module ascent and descent propulsion systems. Evaluate Lunar Module staging. Evaluate S-IVB instrument unit performance. All mission objects achieved.

Apollo 11-Lem 5 Date: January 22, 1968, 05:48:08 pm EST Crew unmanned Launch Vehicle: Saturn-1B.

NASA Vector

This emblem is NASA's second official insignia.
It is now also the official, having replaced the NASA worm design.
It is nearly identical to the design used during all the Mercury flights, as early as the Gemini 3 mission a slight change was made.

The first manned Apollo mission, designed to orbit Earth, ended in tragedy before it began. On 27 January 1967, during a pre-launch training exercise, a fire broke out in the command module, killing the three astronauts inside – Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

Grissom was one of the original Project Mercury astronauts, while White had become the first American to walk in space during the 1965 Gemini 4 mission. Apollo 1 would have been Chaffee’s debut mission.

All three received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor posthumously.

The cause of the fire was never found, but was blamed on a lethal combination of design flaws including the command module’s highly pressurised oxygen atmosphere, electrical faults, a faulty escape hatch and flammable materials.

Apollo IV Commemorative Patch Retrorocket Emblems Apollo IV Commemorative Patch

First manned lunar landing, 20 July 1969, Apollo 11.

Recovery Patch for the Apollo 12 Mission, USS Hornet.

Recovery patch for the Apollo 17 Mission, USS Ticonderoga.

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