Docking Target, Active, Lunar Module, Apollo 11
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Symbolic Displays Inc.
- Summary
- Following rendezvous with the Lunar Module after its ascent from the lunar surface, the LM Active Docking Target, made by Symbolic Displays Inc., is mounted in the Command Module Rendezvous window inside the spacecraft to serve as an aid to the LM pilot in making his final approach for docking. The target has a standoff cross and is illuminated using power from the Command Module electrical system. When not in use the Docking Target is stowed in one of the Command Module lockers.
- This docking target was used during the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission inside the Command Module "Columbia." NASA transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1970.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA/JSC; must be offered back to NASA upon deaccession
- 1968
- Inventory Number
- A19980056000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Crewed-Parts & Structural Components
- Materials
- Overall: metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 19.7 × 21cm (7 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19980056000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv967109f74-478c-473f-a01c-c756a8034986
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