COMMAND MODULE CONTROL PANEL – Designed Layout – Main Display Console, Command Module 101 V 36-976018. Downey, CA: North American Aviation, n.d.
COMMAND MODULE CONTROL PANEL – Designed Layout – Main Display Console, Command Module 101 V 36-976018. Downey, CA: North American Aviation, n.d.
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COMMAND MODULE CONTROL PANEL – Designed Layout – Main Display Console, Command Module 101 V 36-976018. Downey, CA: North American Aviation, n.d.

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COMMAND MODULE CONTROL PANEL – Designed Layout – Main Display Console, Command Module 101 V 36-976018. Downey, CA: North American Aviation, n.d.

Command Module control panel blueprint, extensively signed by astronauts.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED with their individual Command Module and Apollo flight number(s) by Buzz ALDRIN, Alan BEAN, Gene CERNAN, Gordon COOPER, Walt CUNNINGHAM, Charles M. DUKE, Jr, Richard GORDON, Fred HAISE, James LOVELL, James McDIVITT, Edgar MITCHELL, Wally SCHIRRA, Rusty SCHWEICKART, Dave SCOTT, Tom STAFFORD and Al WORDEN. Apollo astronauts spent years training to operate the Command Module with its main and subpanels controlling rocket engine firings, communications, navigation, computer interfacing, environmental conditions, equipment cooling, lighting, and circuit breaker operations. The blueprint shows 200 switches, nearly 100 circuit breakers, some 30 meters, around 20 dials, and also a caution and warning panel at the upper center of the main console having 48 possible indicators that would light or flash during emergency situations.

Blueprint, 11 by 77 inches.

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