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Adam Savage Visits National Air and Space Museum's Restoration Hangar!

Apr 09, 2020
It underwent some testing when it was returned to NASA, but yes, there are a lot of interesting features in the command module that people always have questions about and you guys are getting this ready to show off. Yes, then this will go on loan to another

museum

. Am I looking for places where the bolts were correct so that all of these equipment compartments would have contained the environmental equipment? fuel for all their stuff that they could have accessed through EBA mhm so originally they had these bolts they would have had little covers that were actually made of cork material yeah which one we and they are still on the Apollo 11 and We couldn't believe they used cork, but what was cellulose with polyethylene beads?
adam savage visits national air and space museum s restoration hangar
When we analyzed the material, they covered them and the astronauts could easily remove them with a tool and then the ball would stay. the kit is intact but obviously the bolt hole covers have been removed from this and you will be putting them back on for now okay so here are some features that people asked me about so these are the correct pitch and yaw nozzles, yes, that you can use. Look around, this is an Espeon antenna, oh there are four of them on the heat shield, some burned more than others, it's actually like a silicate glass material, which is pretty funny, yeah, and then this is just the ablative heat shield, right, but what's interesting? over here and this shows a lot of good things that I learned and the other one, so all these little marks are pre-flight repairs, so after curing, they filled each of these little holes by hand, 370,000 holes with cocking guns, these women filled each of them. out of these little

space

s they put together the heat shields, these little honeycombs, yeah, and the photos are amazing, the stock photos of them doing this, they just sat there, you know, all day, filled it, formed it, and then put it in. in a curing oven for a few days they took it out and then they did radiology on it and they couldn't have any kind of air

space

or air pocket or any problem in their system, so they drilled, oh, so each of these are pre-white .
adam savage visits national air and space museum s restoration hangar

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Encounter NASA in The first command modulator worked. I thought they had done all this when he came back, and even all these square pieces. I mean, they're awesome little features. These are all fixes to remove any vocals and it took them a long time to do so. This, oh, that's crazy, aren't they fun? So all of these pieces were made from an original heat shield and they just drilled them again and put them in, yeah, so I often get a lot of questions about the little circles that are all over the place. You said that's crazy, so they were able to cross reference the x-rays they were doing or yeah, and I marked everything, free filled it, cured it and then they started their coding system which involves various poor fillers, epoxy reinforcements, cover that You can see here this white and you know that this is how they form the entire heat shield, so both pieces are made of the same material.
adam savage visits national air and space museum s restoration hangar
This is just a thicker, thicker, more ablative material that would have been intended for a blade, while the central one. The heat shield was meant to stay to protect the inner cone, so when you say they were caulking everything, what are they doing on this part as well and when do we do it, the Orion people came because they were building the heat shield for that and they were wondering if they should go back to the same system they tried a tile system using the same materials so they could go faster and that's when they had all those problems in the first tests because they started cutting the tiles so they may have to go .
adam savage visits national air and space museum s restoration hangar
Let's go back to not an individual filling, but the same type of application. I love the single pencil markings here, yes it's that B Rock B thing, but yeah, so these are NASA markings. I'll have to watch when we're cleaning it, I mean, you never know where. you will find them so these interesting things are phenomenal so this is the urine waste dump oh this specifically yes and it is covered in gold my favorite everyone wants to know what the two eyeballs are when I tell them they say oh my god so They had these incredible, so they had a tube from this astronaut waste dump that was activated manually.
They have a small heater right behind this on the side of the system that heated the liquid because they didn't want it to freeze on contact. reason why it's okay, yeah, yeah, when they waste and it's also the sewage dump, a urine heater and there's no copper underneath, it's that way. I see a little bit of green here, there was like a copper frame and then this is pure gold. on top to prevent it from freezing on contact. Now, what is the reason why you have become so proud? I think it's really like the heating mechanism wasn't quite sure we had some pictures and technical documents on this, but no one seemed to.
Focus on it and anything post-flight so when you're researching it's hard because you know I have these really intimate questions and they're like you know you're scanning 500 pages of NASA like don't even mention it. I wonder why not. This is one of our favorite features. Is incredible. I'm curious about the silver here, so Kapton tape is fine and they use it to keep more radiation out of it. properties, so it would have been below what you see on this reinforcement cover, so this is actually a good picture of the process of how they made the heat shield, which is interesting to me because I don't know if they were testing correctly. here I need to look at it a little bit more, but like if you didn't have all these different surfaces, it would have been just a monolithic ribbon covered in surface, you know, NASA didn't remove it, they removed it from the other one.
So that's what they are brown, oh it was when he came back, how come I guess? I'm just curious why I see so many more void repairs here than up here, but now I'm looking at, sorry, this is thicker too. Okay, yeah, and you'll see them if so, yeah, when I clean it, I'll actually remember to send you a photo. It looks incredibly different when I use my cleaning technique to clean all of this. I mean, you'll start to see a lot of things come out that are so, oh yeah, you can see I'm here, yeah, yeah, they're pierced like little worms; it must have just been weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of, oh my god, I can't imagine it and this is some silver epoxy paint that they used to seal some of them.
We looked into it because we couldn't understand why some of them had this kind of no. When you analyze that, do you send it to a mass spectrometer? We have XRF here, what is that? um , I have not sent any samples. I've done everything in-house, well, wow, we also have FTIR upstairs, which is Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, also portable because we have big things, so we buy all the portable equipment, right? It's hard for us to sample things and feel good about them. I imagine that, so we often know that they probably could do with a little more analysis.
I'm still working on analyzing the interior paint layers of the command modules because we had some flaking and they added a fire retardant, so it's basically a paint without a binder, it's all glass globe rods, if you look under the microscope, it's all glass with a quartz pigment that makes it look green, so it doesn't stay on the walls as much now that we're not having a big party. problem, but we're trying to anticipate it, so we've done some research on that away from home. Does this have an instrument panel like the complete one? I'm waiting for next week.
I'll start doing my documentation. Is it sometimes difficult to chew? In a moment to start getting your hands on it, I'm a little excited because you know we've been working on the Spade seat for a while and I want to do a big cleaning, you know. to get in there, but yeah, everyone tells a different story, so I always let you know excited to start a new project, I imagine.

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