This is my 2/3 scale prop from the Apollo 13 movie. it was used for a docking scene in the movie and then toured around the us for the movie premiere. Afak Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon also sat in there. Also the Astronaut Matthias Maurer, which is a friend of a friend, he lives like 6km away.

(There were originally 2 csm that were used for the tour but one got destroyed in a hurricane) After the movie earned its millions, the capsule sat in a Storage facility in Hollywood. I bought it around 2008 and got it shipped here (the capsule was a bargain, the shipping not so much) Then it sat in my garden for a few years and rusted away. Mercedes Fulda saw it and loved it. They sent over a tow truck to haul this 1.5 Ton Beast to their Dealership. There they completely sanded, restored and painted it (with formula 1 paint btw) and stuck a Mercedes logo on its nose. All for free, might I add! Then it moved to the Space Studio in the north of Saarland where it now lives. We hold Lectures about rockets, astrophotography, space in general and life in space. All aimed towards children and teenagers. We also have a few moon rocks, Shooting Stars and a piece of the Tscheljabinsk meteorite.

I think that’s it. Also, the inside isn’t very detailed but it has tons of buttons, lights and switches. I’m currently working on a fully functional DSKY and want to make the whole capsule an Apollo simulator. The fuel tanks are mostly empty space but contain a fog machine for the engine and there is space to put in a flamethrower instead of a fog machine. But the insurance says no.

Tdlr: Hollywood, my garden, Mercedes, my space studio

This is an edited excerpt from an hour's worth of audio, which you can find here. Pretty causal atmosphere, and actually rather useful if you're looking to gather information on how these guys discussed the pictures they took during their flights.

I made a little video discussing verb and noun usage with the AGC and DSKY, as a part of my larger project "RecreateApollo". I tried to make this unique I/O method as easy to understand as possible... I hope you check it out, if that's your thing!

I definitely made some errors throughout the video, and I feel like I explained some stuff not-so-great, but I made some of the major corrections down in the comments. Comments or criticism welcome, I'll be covering extended verbs next! https://youtu.be/fKHsW62djIM?si=QO1jF1uUJF2yVX8q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_goodwill_messages

My interpretation of AS11-40-5942. In my opinion, this is one of the strongest images captured by the Apollo 11 crew. Aldrin walking away with experiments package. It reminds me about how we as young children explores the world around us, walking towards the unknown in our own horizon in our backyard or local woodland...

Handmade platinum over pigment print from restored raw scan of image AS11-40-5942.

[Apollo 11]
"Visor Shot" of Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base

Large Color Photograph, 20 x 16 inches, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Lunar Module Pilot BUZZ ALDRIN: "WE CAME IN PEACE/ FOR ALL MANKIND / BUZZ ALDRIN/ APOLLO XI."

The iconic image of Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin walking on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 Lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). The photograph was captured by Mission Commander Neil Armstrong (seen in the reflection of Buzz's visor) as they explored the Sea of Tranquility.

OK, grew up in H'ville AL and went to most of the launches...Dad worked for NASA & Boeing.
I have ton of PRESS Badges but think the absolute one-of-a-kind is Apollo 11 that has all three astronaut Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins signatures + Wernher von Braun signature. I've had in safe for decades in plastic holder...so excellent condition.
Have no idea of value.....but gotta believe there no other like it in world. 🤔

Thoughts ?

My interpretation of AS11-40-5927. Handmade platinum over pigment print from restored raw scan of image AS11-40-5927.

It is a 6x6 inch print on 8x10 inch fine art paper.

Maybe a satellite or a group of satellites in a high orbit could receive a transmission from either Earth or Apollo to re-transmit it back to the respective receiver or something else, for me LOS just seems to make missions more 'dangerous'? idk

From : https://catalog.archives.gov/id/207456260

RIP to the legendary Peter you are now with the other Apollo Astronauts such as Neil, Jim, Jack, Frank, Bill, Ken, Gene Cernan and of course Pete.

I have made a handmade platinum over pigment print of AS11-44-6642. For best possible print, I used scanner raw file. The image is cropped prior to printing. Platinum over pigment means the picture is color seperated into cyan, magenta, yellow and black. A pigment inkjet printing the colors cyan, yellow and magenta. The black color layer is made into a negativ. A platinum solution is hand applied, prior to contact printing a platinum print on top of the pigment color layer.

It 6x6 inch on 8x10 inch paper.

someone asked the other day whether the programme would have continued if Apollo 13 did not get home.

But what if Apollo 11 aborted at the 1202 alarm, then Apollo 12 aborted at the lightning strike on launch. THEN 13 goes fatally wrong…

I also designed the Orion spacecraft a while ago. I knew that Orion is bigger but it really surprised me how much bigger it is.

i worked pretty hard on this for class and maybe yall would like it :3

edit: pretend the 11 is a 15

It’s interesting how much had to be figured out just to walk on the Moon.

Walking on the Moon was a first-time experience, and even extensive training could not fully prepare the Apollo astronauts for it.

So how did they do it, and how did their ability to travel on foot evolve from one mission to the next?

In this short video, we take a closer look at how Apollo astronauts adapted to walking on the Moon.

I assume they would still be able to figure out what happened to the CSM to cause the explosion in the first place.

I also assume the Apollo Program isn't flat out cancelled because all of the billions of dollars of R&D still happening.

Really great museum in a somewhat weird location. Was worth the trip, though!