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Visual Docking Moon Simulator
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Visual Docking Moon Simulator

NASA / LRC · 1963-09-30 · photograph (digital archive)

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Astronaut James Lovell at the controls of the Visual Docking Simulator. From A.W. Vogeley, "Piloted Space-Flight Simulation at Langley Research Center," Paper presented at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1966 Winter Meeting, New York, NY, November 27-December 1, 1966. "This facility was [later known as the Visual-Optical Simulator.] It presents to the pilot an out-the-window view of his target in correct 6 degrees of freedom motion.

NASA Image and Video Library’s own description
Credit lineVisual Docking Moon Simulator. NASA/LRC, 1963-09-30. Public domain. ID: LRC-1963-B701_P-09093.

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