Smithsonian Institution:
To mark the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, the Smithsonian has made available a high-resolution 3-D scan of the command module “Columbia,” the spacecraft that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon. This highly detailed model allows anyone with an internet connection to explore the entire craft including its intricate interior, which is not possible when viewing the artifact in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The Smithsonian is also making the data files of the model available for download so it can be 3-D printed or viewed with virtual-reality goggles.
This 3D re-creation of the Command Module is really cool, if terrifyingly analog. Click on the globe icon in the upper left to get a walkthrough of the various aspects of the module.
Jeez – never heard my fans that loud in my MB Air before !
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The calendar is great too.
It’s interesting too, with how it being analog and the knowledge the astronauts had of the module, they probably felt perfectly safe and when they flipped a toggle the toggle did what they wanted.
Take those same astronauts and tell them everything will be controlled by a computer and they’d be the scared ones. There is something comforting about knowing when I pull the handle down on a hatch, and feel it secure, that it’s done right.