The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle gives me the old school NACA “I wanna know what it feels like to fly so I built it from scraps” feeling! So many programs had unconventional and seemingly unsophisticated training measures, but they worked. I’ve always loved showing people how unglamorous it looked to learn to land on the Moon. #author #history #space #nasa #apollo #aviation | Amy Shira Teitel

31K views · 374 reactions | To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull that was 1/6 that of Earth. Apollo's Moonshot | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook

On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for the first time. Discover more space history 👉https://trib.al/KIRrDJt The LLRV was a bizarre, four-legged flying contraption commonly known as the "Flying Bedstead." NASA used it to simulate moon landings and liftoffs on Earth to prepare for Apollo 11. The firast person to give it a whirl was the X-15 pilot Joe Walker. During this 23test flight, he reached an altitude of about 10 feet, and he hovered there