hi I'm Vince Whitfield with a NASA
scientific and technical information
program today we're at the NASA Langley
Research Center gantry which was
originally called the lunar landing
research facility as you can see the
gantry is a large steel structure it was
first utilized by NASA in 1965 so that
Apollo astronauts like Neil Armstrong
and Edwin Buzz Aldrin could practice
performing the descent to the lunar
surface NASA researchers here at the
gantry were able to produce a simulated
lunar gravity field so the astronauts in
training were better prepared for the
lunar missions to learn how this was
achieved you can find a report about the
facility titled operational features are
the Langley lunar landing research
facility which is available for download
from the NASA technical report server or
NTR s please visit the link below which
will take you to the NTR s which is one
of the world's largest repositories of
aerospace scientific and technical
information
it featured documents ranging from the
NACA era to today's cutting-edge
research did you know the gantry is
still being used today as a crash
testing site for aircraft and a water
impact drop test facility for NASA's
Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle the
agency's next foray into space
exploration thanks for watching and
we'll catch you next month