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.