Apollo

The Moon and beyond

Artist, unknown.

Pin Collection

Over 200 pins from Mercury to the Shuttle. At least I think that's how many... if you care to count, let me know what you come up with!

All-in-one Apollo patch

Here's the very first concept patch for an All-In-One Apollo patch.

Apollo food

Yum!!!

Apollo heat shield test block

Ablative material that covered the Apollo command module.

Apollo drink containers

These worked the same way as the spoon bowls. The one on the left was coffee... Apollo was the first program to offer coffee to the astronauts during their flight.

The Apollo White Room

This beta cloth pouch was used in the White Room by Guenter Wendt to store misc items that were used throughout the Apollo program to "ready the flights". Not only was it THERE during that incredible time... but before it was used in such a humble service... it was carried on one of the early Apollo flights... exactly which one?... it's not known.

Apollo spoon bowls

These empty packs would have had dehydrated food in them for the Apollo missions. The astronaut would have injected water in through the "spout" in the bottom of the bag, then needed the water into the food, waited a few minutes, and then unzipped the top and spooned the food out.

A piece of Apollo 4

Apollo 4 was the first flight of the huge and powerful Saturn V rocket. It was amazing. America was in a race to get to the Moon and time was running out, or so America believed. It was decided to do an "All Up" testing, meaning that all the stages of the Saturn V would be tested together as one rocket, rather than the previous method of testing each component separately before attempting a complete version. And it went well. No one had ever witnessed a launch of such a huge spacecraft before and it was startling. Walter Cronkite, who was covering the launch from a remote office three miles away had ceiling tiles fall around him and he felt compelled to brace the glass viewing window to keep it from breaking in on him. Only one other unmanned launch of the Saturn V would occur before the crew of Apollo 8 climbed aboard one of these skyscrapers and flew it to the Moon. This is small piece of heatshielding from the returning command module from that flight.