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| Keywords: Apollo Program DVIDS717739.jpg en Construction of Model 1 used in the LOLA simulator This was a twenty-foot sphere which simulated for the astronauts what the surface of the moon would look like from 200 miles up 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 James Hansen wrote This simulator was designed to provide a pilot with a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface; the machine consisted primarily of a cockpit a closed-circuit TV system and four large murals or scale models representing portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes The pilot in the cockpit moved along a track past these murals which would accustom him to the visual cues for controlling a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon Unfortunately such a simulation--although great fun and quite aesthetic--was not helpful because flight in lunar orbit posed no special problems other than the rendezvous with the LEM which the device did not simulate Not long after the end of Apollo the expensive machine was dismantled p 379 Ellis J White wrote in his paper Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs Model 1 is a 20-foot-diameter sphere mounted on a rotating base and is scaled 1 in 9 miles Models 2 3 and 4 are approximately 15x40 feet scaled sections of model 1 Model 4 is a scaled-up section of the Crater Alphonsus and the scale is 1 in 200 feet All models are in full relief except the sphere Published in James R Hansen Spaceflight Revolution NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo Washington NASA 1995 p 379; Ellis J White Discussion of Three Typical Langley Research Center Simulation Programs Paper presented at the Eastern Simulation Council EAI's Princeton Computation Center Princeton NJ October 20 1966 NASA Identifier L63-718 2009-09-24 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/717739 717739 2012-10-10 18 23 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Langley Research Center Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
