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hi I'm Vince Whitfield with a NASA

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scientific and technical information

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program today we're at the NASA Langley

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Research Center gantry which was

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originally called the lunar landing

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research facility as you can see the

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gantry is a large steel structure it was

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first utilized by NASA in 1965 so that

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Apollo astronauts like Neil Armstrong

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and Edwin Buzz Aldrin could practice

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performing the descent to the lunar

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surface NASA researchers here at the

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gantry were able to produce a simulated

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lunar gravity field so the astronauts in

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training were better prepared for the

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lunar missions to learn how this was

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achieved you can find a report about the

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facility titled operational features are

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the Langley lunar landing research

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facility which is available for download

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from the NASA technical report server or

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NTR s please visit the link below which

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will take you to the NTR s which is one

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of the world's largest repositories of

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aerospace scientific and technical

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information

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it featured documents ranging from the

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NACA era to today's cutting-edge

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research did you know the gantry is

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still being used today as a crash

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testing site for aircraft and a water

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impact drop test facility for NASA's

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Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle the

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agency's next foray into space