LB7

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:56 pm

On one of the Nashville local daytime News programs had a representative from USSRC. He came to talk about mainly about how easily it is to get there from here and what they had. He did mention that early next year Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7; which has been recovered from the ocean's floor and refurbished will be on display at the USSRC. He also said that it will be traveling nation wide. They did have footage of Space Camp but it was old footage because they where using the mission control next to Intrepid's mission control which is not being used from what I know and a SSMT which I have seen somewhere else at the USSRC which is also not being used at least at this time I will not disclose its location though.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:23 pm

I din't know they even had an SSMT any more. Is it stuck away in some storage place somewhere?

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:27 pm

Since Grissom was from Indiana, the Indianapolis Children's Museum was one of the first places to get the Liberty Bell 7. It's really neat. They found a lot of stuff.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 4:33 pm

This would be a good topic for a poll.

Meanwhile, here's some info on the LB7 exhibit from the Kirpatrick Science and Air Space Museum in Oklahoma.

CastAway · Post by **CastAway** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:02 pm

Wait... SSMT? Not in the convenient Acronym Reference in my ASA book...

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:10 pm

Space Station Mobility Trainer, and old sim. We discussed it in a post before you joined. There's a pic of it in Vincent's gallery. Here it is:

Also, here's a page with pics from Titusville, you can see the VAB in cone of them and the SSMT in a few. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jlprice/camp2.htm

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:14 pm

I don't know why our museum here made no attempt to get Liberty Bell 7 here for display. NASA LaRc was where the mercury astronauts did all their training. They also did alot of the testing on the space craft as well as building and testing test versions of the mercury space craft. But the idiots who run the museum here obviously weren't thinking. But then atleast we do have one mercury capsule even if it was an unmanned one.