[NASA] 60 Years Ago: Lunar Landing Research Vehicle Takes Flight

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NASA pilot Joe Walker sits in the pilot’s platform of the

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(LLRV) number 1 on Oct. 30, 1964. The LLRV and its successor the 

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 (LLTV) provided the training tool to simulate the final 200 feet of the descent to the Moon’s surface.

The LLRVs, humorously referred to as flying bedsteads, were used by NASA’s Flight Research Center, now NASA’s

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in California, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo lunar module in the moon’s airless environment.

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