Philly's Lunar Lander

In this case, it's a little window.

Fran Blanche

Some years ago when I was on the staff of a hands-on interactive museum I visited a family in the Seattle area who had a very interesting backyard play object. It was a scale model of the lander that had been made for a family of kids to spend their time in. It was very detailed and I was told some effort had been expended to make it accurate. It was several years old when I visited it and the children of the family were all grown and not interested in keeping the lander. The family was looking for a home for it; or maybe and just someone who would get it out of the backyard; I was there to see if it would work in our museum. Yep, I did get in and play! It was one of those wonderful "I an astronaut, well, at least kid again; No, I was not able to convince my colleagues at the museum to negotiate to acquire the lander. I still regret I was was not a good enough salesman because the thing was just so neat!

William E Lee

Beautiful! They should put it inside.

Toon van der Pas

The one at Huntsville (at Space Camp) was unpainted aluminum, and about as thick as Extra Heavy Reynolds Wrap; an extra gram delivered to Luna is a lot of fuel!

I wish they put in indoors so it wouldn't get so dirty. But at least it's being looked after. Yeah, the size is surprising to me too. You really need to stand next to something unusual to get the proper perspective. I didn't know that Philly was one of the filming locations for the Lunar Lander footage that NASA tried to convince everyone was really on the moon. (Ok, had to get that conspiracy nonsense in there.) I think I experienced the same sense of awe when I first had access to an F-15 fighter. It was HUGE! I thought to myself, "They dogfight in this massive thing?" I'll bet I'd experience the same awe if I actually saw one of the real retired Space Shuttles up close. But I read that NASA stripped the interiors of the Space Shuttles and even kept the main engines because they could be used on some future space vehicle. That really bothered me. Couldn't they have left at least ONE shuttle in one piece? It's like desicrating a national treasure. I liked the wind noise in your video. It made it that much more immersive.

Matt Wietlispach

Philly has everything, I am so jealous!

David Peaker

Do a collaboration with Lock Picking Lawyer and you can see the the inside, I'm sure!

Circuitmike

My Evil Mind wants to Build A better One..And make it out of Coffee Can's..

Michael

Yeah that "do not touch" sign is going to get ignored. Every kid will want to jump off there!

Only one little niggle about your presentation (which I did enjoy) was that you called the round thing on the body of the craft a window. Actually, it's a Tracking Light. God, that is so petty but when it comes to early NASA I have bad OCD....Sorry

I wonder if there's anything left inside. Looks as if it is still weather resistant. I wonder what it's made of (the skin).

Robert Sanges

Mindblowing indeed! 🤯 Thanks for sharing!

The lander had no seats... Due to the low gravity and delta v for descent they landed standing up.

Fran Blanche

Very cool

I guess it is accurate in all the features required for training. I would have thought it would at least have a mock up of the seats inside, so they could practice the whole getting in and out sequence. Or maybe they did the inside training on another mock up back at base?

Dr Andy Hill

Love it! ❤️