02-21-2019, 06:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Earl
I think the JSC Saturn V was completely restored/repainted when it was enclosed, and maybe the same for the KSC and ASRC Saturns as well.
I am surprised, somewhat, to see the JSC Service Module (and quads) with the paint scheme it shows. The main 'body' of the Service Module has been rendered in a plain gray, which I'm pretty sure NO flight Saturn V ever had. The radiator panels as white is correct, but the solid white quad boxes is not.
John Pursley, who posts here some, was heavily involved with the JSC project as I recall and is one of the foremost Saturn V modelers/historian. Maybe he can fill us in at some point on some of those color choices, but they seem out of place to me when compared to many, many flight vehicle images.
The KCS Service Module and Command Module you featured in your first batch of photos is, as I recall, actual leftover flight hardwear and appears to have never been mollested from a 'restoration' effort. I have looked over that hardware there on a number of visits to KSC over the years and have some extensive photos of it, but they are not easily at hand (a la paper prints).
Earl
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Apollo 6's Service Module was mostly white (it was the only one of that color), while the others had various combinations of metallic finishes (not painted, at least for the most part). The Skylab Command Modules were mostly white (I think), due to their longer in-space stays and sunlight/darkness exposure cycles; this doesn't seem to have necessitated any surface finish changes for the Skylab Service Modules (even Vanguard 1, which has an all-metallic finish, didn't have any day/night thermal cycle problems, as it transmitted for six years, until radiation finally degraded its early-type solar cells).
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