Bell Aerospace Systems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV)

[jstar]

Need help identifying this LLRV/LLTV please. Can find only a few pictures of it. It may have been used at the Langley Lunar Research Facility. More pictures, plans, drawings would be nice...hoping to model it.

Many thanks.

 

[TomS]

Need help identifying this LLRV/LLTV please. Can find only a few pictures of it. It may have been used at the Langley Lunar Research Facility. More pictures, plans, drawings would be nice...hoping to model it.

Many thanks.

It's a cab for the Lunar Landing Simulator at Langley. It was mostly suspended by cables from a gantry,with hydrogen peroxide thursters providing the rest of the propulsion. I found a video of it in action that might help, and a description in a NASA history (you want Page 375 and following). That might give you a better starting point for your research.

https://vpm.org/news/articles/3605/...-on-next-mission-50-years-after-lunar-landinghttps://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/ch11.htm

 

[flateric]

"Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS) that was used at the LLRF (Lunar Landing Research Facility) at Langley. The LLRV was a free-flying vehicle, while this LEMS vehicle only flew tethered, hanging from the huge gantry at the LLRF site.

 

[flateric]

https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Lunar_Excursion_Module_Simulator

 

[jstar]

Thank you, Gentlemen, for the quick responses, pictures, and leads. Very much appreciated. Was looking in all the wrong places, but now that I know it's the Lunar Excursion Module Simulator I can carry on.

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OXk4RKZhaY

 

[Archibald]

Need help identifying this LLRV/LLTV please. Can find only a few pictures of it. It may have been used at the Langley Lunar Research Facility. More pictures, plans, drawings would be nice...hoping to model it.

Many thanks.

The cabin looks like it has been "borrowed" from a Bell 47... would not be a surprise: helicopters and lunar landers have a lot in common.

 

[bercr]

https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-the-first-flight-of-the-lunar-landing-research-vehicle/

 

[Grey Havoc]

LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle)

• Bell Aerosystems 7161

https://elpoderdelasgalaxias.wordpr...ll-llrv-concept-inside-the-encom-gaming-grid/

 

[RAP]

Free download https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/alsj-LLRV.html