Did the LLTVs have images of the lunar surface projected onto their 'windows'?paraffin to shape a model of a section of the lunar surface. I understood that the LM mock-up pilot's control actions would control the motion of cameras moving across the moon model and send those images to the 'windows' of the simulator to simulate
Did some other lunar landing simulator have moving lunar surface images displayed on the windows to simulate motion across the lunar surface in response to the pilot's control actions?
Background: In 1962-64 I was a computer programmer at NASA's Langley Research Center. One of my projects was a program to generate data to feed to an automated carving tool (which I never saw) which was to track back and forth across a slab of
Does anyone know if such a simulator was actually built and utilized? If so, was the model lunar surface preserved? stored? displayed? photographed?incrementing x-y coordinates with approximated z values.
We had contour maps of the lunar surface. The input to my program was generated by sampling points along contours. That data essentially had fixed z-coordinate values (elevation) and randomly changing x-y coordinates. My output was regularly
David,
Thanks for your recommendation.
I just read the intro to the aRocket forum. It seems to be specific
to amateur rocketry. My question is about NASA history. It doesn't
seem to me that I would be on topic.
On 19-07-27 18:40 , stinsonlenkerd@gmail.com wrote:
David,
Thanks for your recommendation.
I just read the intro to the aRocket forum. It seems to be specific
to amateur rocketry. My question is about NASA history. It doesn't
seem to me that I would be on topic.
The people most in voice on aRocket are the kinds of "amateurs" who used
to work in NASA and commercial aerospace companies, then went into
start-up private launcher development, and now do professional
consulting in the area. I think you will find NASA history experts
there, as well as experts on rocketry in general.
Did the LLTVs have images of the lunar surface projected onto their 'windows'?
Did some other lunar landing simulator have moving lunar surface images displayed on the windows to simulate motion across the lunar surface in response to the pilot's control actions?
Background: In 1962-64 I was a computer programmer at NASA's Langley Research Center. One of my projects was a program to generate data to feed to an automated carving tool (which I never saw) which was to track back and forth across a slab ofparaffin to shape a model of a section of the lunar surface. I understood that the LM mock-up pilot's control actions would control the motion of cameras moving across the moon model and send those images to the 'windows' of the simulator to simulate
Does anyone know if such a simulator was actually built and utilized? If so, was the model lunar surface preserved? stored? displayed? photographed?incrementing x-y coordinates with approximated z values.
We had contour maps of the lunar surface. The input to my program was generated by sampling points along contours. That data essentially had fixed z-coordinate values (elevation) and randomly changing x-y coordinates. My output was regularly
Did the LLTVs have images of the lunar surface projected onto their >'windows'?
Did some other lunar landing simulator have moving lunar surface images >displayed on the windows to simulate motion across the lunar surface in >response to the pilot's control actions?
Background: In 1962-64 I was a computer programmer at NASA's Langley
Research Center. One of my projects was a program to generate data to feed >to an automated carving tool (which I never saw) which was to track back
and forth across a slab of paraffin to shape a model of a section of the >lunar surface. I understood that the LM mock-up pilot's control actions >would control the motion of cameras moving across the moon model and send >those images to the 'windows' of the simulator to simulate the view as the >'LM' approached the surface.
Does anyone know if such a simulator was actually built and utilized? If
so, was the model lunar surface preserved? stored? displayed? photographed?
We had contour maps of the lunar surface. The input to my program was >generated by sampling points along contours. That data essentially had
fixed z-coordinate values (elevation) and randomly changing x-y
coordinates. My output was regularly incrementing x-y coordinates with >approximated z values.
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There's an excellent example of this in the "Mare Tranquilitatis" episode of From the Earth to the Moon. Armstrong
Greg \(Strider\) Moore <mooregr@deletethisgreenms.com> wrote:
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There's an excellent example of this in the "Mare Tranquilitatis" episode
of
From the Earth to the Moon. Armstrong
The whole series is worth a watch IMO.
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