Object Details
- Summary
- This Apollo command module pressure model was part of a larger grouping built and used for wind tunnel testing conducted in the development stage of the Apollo program. The testing was to observe and measure the aerodynamic and heat transfer properties of the module at launch and reentry. This model was to document the distribution of pressure the command module would experience traversing the atmosphere at a specific angle.
- NASA transferred the model to the Smithsonian in 1971.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned Spacecraft Center
- Inventory Number
- A19720945000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Wind Tunnel
- Materials
- Steel
- Aluminum
- Gypsum
- Vinyl Tape
- Adhesive
- Ink
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 53.3 × 17.8 × 15.9cm (21 × 7 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Storage: 84.5cm × 23.5cm × 20.3cm (2 ft. 9.3 in. × 9.3 in. × 8 in.)
- Other: 11.3kg (25lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Destination Moon
- Title
- Model, Wind Tunnel, Apollo Command Module
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19720945000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9940f4c5f-6481-47c3-91d7-978ba8a24693
