Artefakty m. in. z lotu Apollo 8 udostępnił Frank Borman do celów wystawienniczych.
Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman donates artifacts for EAA exhibitDecember 9, 2018 — Frank Borman's personal space memorabilia has debuted on display, 50 years after some of the items accompanied him on the first mission to launch humans to the moon.
"The Borman Collection: An EAA Member's Space Odyssey" opened at the EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on Saturday (Dec. 8 ), showcasing the Apollo 8 astronaut's mementos. (...)
The exhibit also includes the translational hand controller used to manually fly the Apollo 8 command module.
"This was a translator we used to control the spacecraft. You twisted it left, right, up, down, forward, back," Borman explained. "What you did was pulse it and once you pulsed it, it kept going. It wasn't like flying an airplane. There was no return to neutral. The way you stopped it was to pulse it in the other way."
Other items on display include Borman's flown flashlight, the pencils he used to take notes, a mockup of the "eight ball," or flight director attitude indicator, used to determine the orientation of the command module and a pair of scissors used in the preparation of space food.
"This was the scissors we used to cut the plastic bags where we kept the food," said Borman. "The bags came with freeze-dried food in it. You injected water into and then mixed it up and then cut it [to open]." (...)
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