LM-8/9 Ascent and Descent Stage Thermal and Micrometeoroid Blanket Arrangement
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LM-6 Thermal and Micrometeoriod Sheilding- Ascent Stage
Diagrams courtesy of Gary Kitmacher
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Miscellaneous Photos
Courtesy of Gary Kitmacher
 1/50 scale Saturn V built by Gary's students |
 RealSpace Models Mir replicas built by Gary for participants in the Shuttle/Mir program |
 JSC's Thermal Vacuum Test Article on display |
 NASM's LM-2 rebuilt to resemble LM-5 (it doesn't- editor) |
Photos of Block I Apollo CM 009
Courtesy of Jay ChladekColor correction by the editor
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Block I Scimmitar Antenna interface with BPC
BPC for SA-201 and 202 Illustrated
Illustration Copyright 1998 by David Weeks
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Gagarin's Vostok Launcher Color
Courtesy of Gary Kitmacher
The images of the full rocket and the close-up of the engines and rocket aft end are the Vostok rocket inside of the Energia gate that was erected in 1996. This rocket is supposed to be the most accurate duplicate of the Vostok 1.
Those two images are superimposed on a scan of an actual telemetry access door that I brought back from Baikonur.
All three were literally placed on my scanner and scanned simultaneously and looking at the scans on the computer screen next to the originals the colors look to be right on. The door actually flew (suborbitally) and came off one of the booster stages. The stage was lying in a junkyard about a kilometer away from the Sputnik/Vostok/Voskhod/Soyuz launch complex. It appeared to me to be pretty typical of the color of other flight hardware in that location. The rocket at Energia looks to be a single tone grey. The door is grey but definitely has a green/blue tinge to it.--Gary Kitmacher
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Copyright 1997, 1998 by John
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