Grumman A i r c r a f t Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, New York, p r i m a r i l y known a s a maker of f i g h t e r planes f o r the Navy, began r e s e a r c h back i n 1960 with a M ' t e a m which now comprises approximately 6000 s c i e n t i s t s , e n g i n e e r s and technicians. Two y e a r s of pioneer work on Apollo paid off i n 1 9 6 2 when t h e N a t i o n a l Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) c a l l e d f o r b i d s on developing a LM.
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NASA said,
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b i l l i o n f o r development, manufacture, test and d e l i v e r y of t w o mission s i m u l a t o r s , 1 0 ground test a r t i c l e s (LTA'S) and 1 5 f l i g h t a r t i c l e s (LM's)
M-1,
LTA-1
e l e c t r o n i c s systems.
was d e l i v e r e d t o the
I t h a s completed
LTA-1OR was aboard t h e November 9, 1967 f l i g h t o f Apollo 4 . It was instrumented t o measure v i b r a t i o n , a c o u s t i c s and s t r u c t u r a l i n t e g r i t y d u r i n g launch.
d u r i n g t h e f i r s t 12 m i n u t e s of f l i g h t of t h e f i r s t S a t u r n V .
The f i r s t f l i g h t vehicle, LM-1, was shipped from Grumman's
LM-1
was launched J a n u a r y 2 2 , 1968 on Apollo 5 for i t s f i r s t unmanned test flight. During this mission t h e Lunar Module's a s c e n t and
i s undergoing
criteria.
LTA-B,
c o n c e n t r i c r i n g s a r r a n g e d t o form a c y l i n d e r w i t h four i n t e r n a l
. John
and U N C d r . Eugene C e m a n , LM P i l o t . S
LM-5
Mission
p l a n s include t h e deployment o f s c i e n t i f i c i n s t r u m e n t s , photography, and t h e r e t r i e v a l o f l u n a r s u r f a c e m a t e r i a l s f o r r e t u r n t o E a r t h . The d e s c e n t stage o f LM-5 was s h i p p e d t o Kennedy Space Center on J a n u a r y 1 2 , 1968 and t h e a s c e n t s t a g e on J a n u a r y 8, 1969.
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