LEGO Designer:
Adam Wilde (Apollo 110)
Designed:
November 2019
Categories:
Apollo Program, All, Space Agency - NASA
Apollo 5 (also known as AS-204), was the first uncrewed flight of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), which would later carry astronauts to the lunar surface. It lifted off on January 22, 1968, with a Saturn IB rocket on an Earth-orbital flight.
The Apollo 5 mission tested the lunar module in a space environment, in particular its descent and ascent engine systems, and its ability to separate the ascent and descent stages. The descent engine would become the first throttleable rocket engine fired in space.
The mission also performed a simulation of a landing abort, in which the ascent stage engine would be fired while still attached to the descent stage. This, referred to by engineers as the “fire in the hole” test, was depicted in the mission’s insignia patch.
There are very few photos of Apollo 5’s LM-1 (all of the ones I’ve seen can be found in Drew Ex Machina’s reliably excellent article about the mission: ‘Apollo 5: The First Flight of the Lunar Module’). Probably the most widely known is the photo of LM-1 being mated with the lower SLA in the Manned Spaceflight Operations Building (MSOB). So that’s what I’ve tried to recreate for my Apollo 5 diorama, albeit with the LM actually mated rather than in the process of being lowered, and with everything more tightly grouped to fit into 12×12 studs.
Part count: bricks, lots.
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Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
Launch History information from space.skyrocket.de
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