Accession No
6084
Brief Description
6-inch lunar (Moon) globe showing NASA landing areas, by Replogle Globes Inc., U.S.A., 1967
Origin
U.S.A.; Illinois; Chicago
Maker
Replogle Globes Inc.
Class
astronomy; demonstration
Earliest Date
1967
Latest Date
1968
Inscription Date
1967
Material
metal (powder coated); paint
Dimensions
height 210mm; width 162mm; depth 150mm
Special Collection
Provenance
Purchased from a private individual via eBay on or before 09/07/2006.
Inscription
‘The MOON
Manufactured by
REPLOGLE GLOBES INC.’ [on side of globe]
‘Produced by
Robert I. Johnson, Director
Richard M. Grossman and Staff, Cartographers
ADLER PLANETARIUM AND ASTRONOMICAL MUSEUM
1:22,809,600 or 1 inch=360 miles
(c)Replogle Globes Inc., Chicago, 1963
Made in the U.S.A.
LUNAR LANDING AREAS
APOLLO BELT [surrounded by dots] Proposed U.S. manned
landings to be within this area.
[star symbol] Crash Sites
[triangle symbol] Soft Landings’
[all on side of globe]
Description Notes
6-inch lunar (moon) globe showing NASA landing areas; by Replogle Globes Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA; 1967. See Wh. 6085, 6086 and 6087 for accompanying leaflets.
Metal globe with transfer print(?) showing the moon surface. Globe consists of two hemispheres joined together. Metallic beige powder coated metal stand.
Globe was “produced by Robert I. Johnson, Director
Richard M. Grossman and Staff, Cartographers, Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum.”
Scale 1:22,809,600 or 1 inch=360 miles
Lunar landing areas are marked by several symbols: a name surrounded by dots gives the area within which proposed U.S. manned landings are suggested. A star symbol marks ‘crash sites’ and a triangle symbol shows ‘soft landings’.
Condition good; a few minor scratches to base of stand.
References
Events
Description
Having been beaten by the Soviets to the first photographs of the far side of the Moon, the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) concentrated its lunar exploration in the 1960s on preparing for a manned landing on the Moon. For this, NASA needed to find suitable landing sites, which meant producing clear images of the Moon’s surface so that a safe, flat and debris free landing site could be found. They also needed to prove that a soft landing on the lunar surface was possible. Three separate programs were set up to achieve these goals: the Ranger Program (1961-1965), which sent nine unmanned spacecraft to crash into the surface of the Moon, taking close-up photographs of the lunar surface in the seconds before impact; the Lunar Orbiter Program (1966-67), which sent five unmanned spacecraft into orbit around the moon to map the entire lunar surface, taking high-resolution images of potential landing sites; and the Surveyor Program (1966-68), which safely landed five unmanned robotic spacecraft on the lunar surface.
This globe, produced by the Chicago firm Replogle in collaboration with the Adler Planetarium, shows the landing and crash sites of the spacecraft from these missions, along with those of the Soviet Lunar missions being run at the same time. The area across the Moon’s equator shaded with small black dots indicates the ‘Apollo belt’, the area proposed by NASA for the first manned landings. In 1969 Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the Moon, landed within this area, in the bottom left corner of Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility), near where Ranger 8 had crashed in 1965.
14/01/2014
Created by: Allison Ksiazkiewicz on 14/01/2014
FM:46554
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