Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Lunar Landing Research Facility was an area at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to simulate Apollo Moon landings with a mock Lunar Module powered by a small rocket motor suspended from a crane over a simulated lunar landscape.Completed in 1965 at a cost of $3.5 million, Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and 22 other astronauts used the facility to practice solving piloting problems they would encounter in the last 150 feet of descent to the surface of the Moon.The structure was used to facilitate "flying" a full-scale Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS). The LEMS was suspended from a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, 400-foot (120 m)-long A-frame gantry by an overhead bridge crane. The LEMS is now on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center."@en }
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- Lunar_Landing_Research_Facility abstract "The Lunar Landing Research Facility was an area at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to simulate Apollo Moon landings with a mock Lunar Module powered by a small rocket motor suspended from a crane over a simulated lunar landscape.Completed in 1965 at a cost of $3.5 million, Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and 22 other astronauts used the facility to practice solving piloting problems they would encounter in the last 150 feet of descent to the surface of the Moon.The structure was used to facilitate "flying" a full-scale Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS). The LEMS was suspended from a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, 400-foot (120 m)-long A-frame gantry by an overhead bridge crane. The LEMS is now on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.".