NASA APOLLO PROGRAM MOLAB LUNAR MOBILE GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY CONCEPT MOCK-UP XD31404

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent film, “Lunar Surface Task Analysis for Apollo Experiments Support“ is one of a series produced by NASA’s George C. Marshall Flight Center. It shows training / testing of both spacesuits and a moon vehicle mock-up. The film is silent but there does appear to be a plot -- its seems to show the rescue of one astronaut by another after a rock collection goes awry. The spacesuits shown appear similar to those used in Project Mercury, and likely pre-date Apollo. The mock-up shown is an early version of the MOLAB, which was initially developed by Northrop beginning in 1963 as an Apollo Logistics Support System. (MOLAB was also known as the “MGL“ for “Mobile Geological Laboratory“). This vehicle concept evolved from the study contract NAS8-11096. This vehicle mock up concept was constructed at MSFC and was used later to study the human factors aspect of conducti