File:Apollo Command Module Panel (5386054271).jpg

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A supremely rare item, this is a fully intact instrument panel from the early Apollo 1 Command Module design (specifically MDC-18 from the Block 1 spacecraft series).

The panel was released by North American Aviation after the pad fire accident that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee in 1967 and precipitated a further redesign of many wiring elements for safety.

With a 400Hz 120V AC supply, I may be able to energize it… =)

The various warning signals, such as Bus A and Bus B undervolt, and the various Fuel Cell indicators for the H2 and O2 tanks reminded me of the Apollo 13 drama. “Houston, we’ve had a problem. We’ve had a main B bus undervolt.”

These readings and controls would have been the area of intense interest to the crew as they tried to understand what had happened (the number 2 oxygen tank in the service module had exploded).

Backside view below. The overlay notes above come from the Apollo Operations Handbook, Controls and Displays SM2A-03-SC012, Nov. 12, 1966.
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Author Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA

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