Lunar Landing Simulator
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Highlights

  • Accurately reproduces the forward cabin of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM).
  • Offers two separate stations so that two visitors can independently fly the LM to the lunar surface.
  • Uses Lunar Contact! software from Binary Star Ltd.
  • Recreates the last 2 minutes before touchdown at the Apollo 17 landing site.
  • Our approach to exhibit design yields a simple cockpit with accurate dimensions, enhancing the experience.

Features

  • Illuminated control panels as in the actual LM
  • Welded steel structure dismantles to fit through a 36” wide doorway.
  • Two monitors at each station display the simulation.
  • Console monitor shows gauge readings just like the actual LM.
  • Window monitor shows the approaching lunar surface.
  • Visitors control the descent using a joystick and a throttle.

Details

  • References over 200 Grumman engineering drawings of the LM
  • Gives visitors a true sense of the size and configuration of the craft that took Americans to the moon.
  • The visible inner and outer surfaces of the LM are accurately placed*, revealing its fragile character.

* The visible LM inner and outer surfaces are taken at the cabin slice plane and extruded the length of the exhibit.

Wendy Coones, Exhibits Specialist at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA, tries her skills at landing on the moon in their new exhibit.

  • The exhibit dimensions are 102” wide, 86” tall and 62” deep.
  • See the Binary Star Ltd. web site for more software details (go to the Interactive Space Simulations page).
  • Please contact us for more details on the simulator enclosure.
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