What Am I?

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 03/14/2015 at 11:50 • Filed to: spacelopnik, apollo

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Provide your guesses below. Edit: the Oct 1965 date is a big hint. Edit 2. McMike got it... That is the Apollo 6 Command Module. It is on display at the Fernbank Science Museum in Atlanta. We took the kids to the planetarium there this morning. After it flew it was pretty well scavenged by NASA including all the interior and thrusters. I stuck my phone in a thruster hole (without touching anything!) and took a pick of the inside.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 11:59

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Hood insulation?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:00

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Some aero underbelly pan?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:01

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I'm guessing these are all taken of some old LeMans car?

Edit: Or maybe a plane. The first picture is making me think maybe aviation.

Tohru > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:02

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Airplane?

f86sabre > Tohru 03/14/2015 at 12:09

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no, but aerospace related.

f86sabre > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 03/14/2015 at 12:10

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aerospace related

f86sabre > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 03/14/2015 at 12:11

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a type of insulation in that pic, but not hood. Aerospace

McMike > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:12

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Oct 1965 is printed on that little bulkhead.

Cold war something.

Aircraft.

Green color hints at military.

Floor hints at large size.

C-130

f86sabre > Tohru 03/14/2015 at 12:12

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areospace related

f86sabre > McMike 03/14/2015 at 12:27

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good catch on the date. It's a big hint, but it is not military.

Jcarr > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:29

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APU?

jariten1781 > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:47

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I'd say reentry shield, but I'm not sure with the picture with the wiring. That one looks like any number of stuff in cold war aircraft, ocean going craft, or missile interstages/equipment sections.

f86sabre > jariten1781 03/14/2015 at 12:53

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Heat shield is getting closer, but none of those pics are of the shield.

DoYouEvenShift > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 12:58

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Is that a heatshield?

Gemini spacecraft?

f86sabre > DoYouEvenShift 03/14/2015 at 13:02

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not Gemini, they are mostly black, but getting close

DoYouEvenShift > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 13:09

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X15?

Sam > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 13:10

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Is it an X15? Or maybe a Gemini orbiter?

f86sabre > DoYouEvenShift 03/14/2015 at 13:26

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nope

f86sabre > Sam 03/14/2015 at 13:27

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nope

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 13:46

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Saturn V wiring and payload fairing?

f86sabre > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 03/14/2015 at 13:54

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getting really close!

ClassicDatsunDebate > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 14:13

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The first pic. I'm guessing, is something that had a multi-mission role. The bulkhead says 1965 but the modern connectors and instrumentation tells me that it has been upgraded over it's life.

The next pic looks like heat shielding material

The last pic looks like a deck surface of some kinda vehicle.

Are they parts of the Crawler-Transporter?

f86sabre > ClassicDatsunDebate 03/14/2015 at 14:25

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close' but not quite there. All pics are of the same thing.

McMike > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 15:21

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From some of the other guesses, it sounds like NASA.

The wear and tear on the floor makes me thing it used quite a bit.

Crawler.

-edit- I just read the rest of the thread, and I see that wasn't it.

McMike > f86sabre 03/14/2015 at 15:35

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NASA. It has to be NASA.

That worn floor surface is really confusing. It's either a static display of a Apollo capsule, and the floor is part of the structure, or it's part of a service structure.

THAT'S ALL I GOT!

f86sabre > McMike 03/14/2015 at 16:04

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You got a lot. That is the Apollo 6 Command Module. It is on display at the Fernbank Science Museum in Atlanta. We took the kids to the planetarium there this morning. After it flew it was pretty well scavenged by NASA including all the interior and thrusters. I stuck my phone in a thruster hole (without touching anything!) and took a pick of the inside.