At 8:13 in the morning, Flight Research Center Chief Pilot Joe Walker gently lifted off for the first flight in the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle.
At 8:13 in the morning, Flight Research Center Chief Pilot Joe Walker gently lifted off for the first flight in the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle. Conceived simultaneously by engineers at the Flight Research Center and at the Bell Aircraft Company, and built by the latter, the follow-on LLTV (training vehicle) was to be used to train the Apollo astronauts for a landing on the moon.NASA Photo
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