Sunday, September 09, 2007
MQF
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This is the MQF - the Mobile Quarantine Facility - at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air & Space Museum. It was used to isolate the crew of Apollo 11 after the first Moonlandings in order to be sure that the crew did not carry any dangerous lunar germs. The crew donned isolation garments before being hoisted into the recovery helicopter and then once on the Aircraft Carrier "Hornet", they entered this airstream which was then transported back to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston where they stayed in quarantine for 3 weeks after landing. This image was taken at 18mm focal length with an exposure of 1/50 seconds at f/5.0, ISO 800.
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2 comments:
by what reason do they suspect about lunar germs?
And how this small thing was separating? separating what?
Before Apollo, we could only guess at what might be on the Moon and if there were any life there, so just to be sure, we isolated the first 3 crews to see if they would be affected by anything. The MQF was built to keep any microbes from escaping into the outside air during transport back to Houston.
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