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<p><strong>Tunnel Vision</strong><br /> The MORL-Saturn IB launch combination undergoes aerodynamic testing in the 8-Foot Transonic Tunnel in October 1965." Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), p. 302.</p>
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<p><strong>Astronaut Mirror</strong><br /> Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a special environmental sample container filled with lunar soil collected during his sojourn on the lunar surface. A Hasselblad camera is mounted on the chest of his spacesuit. Pete Conrad, who took this image, is reflected in Bean’s helmet visor, November 20, 1969.</p>
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<p><strong>Lonely At The Top</strong><br /> After deploying the S-band antenna and the solar-wind experiment and after erecting the flag, the Apollo 12 crew moved around the Lunar Module LM and photographed their spacecraft on the edge of the Surveyor Crater.</p>
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<p><strong>Chillaxing</strong><br /> Prime crew for the Apollo VII mission practice water egress procedures with full-scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. In the water at right is Astronaut Edward H. White foreground and Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee. In raft near the spacecraft is Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom. NASA swimmers are in the water to assist in the practice session that took place at Ellington AFB, near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston.</p>
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<p><strong>Inside Project LOLA</strong><br /> Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars.</p>
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<p><strong>Hand-Painted Simulation</strong><br /> Artists used paintbrushes and airbrushes to recreate the lunar surface on each of the four models comprising the LOLA simulator.</p>
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<p><strong>Night Practice</strong><br /> Lunar landing at night at Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF).</p>
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<p><strong>The Facility </strong><br /> Construction of the Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF) … this gigantic facility was designed to develop techniques for landing the rocket-powered LEM on the moon’s surface.</p>
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<p><strong>Testing</strong><br /> Test subject wearing the pressurized "space" suit for the Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator located at the Lunar Landing Facility. The purpose of this simulator was to study the subject while walking, jumping or running.</p>