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‘Muroc Maru’, 28 August 1944, Rogers Dry Lake, Southern California.
A 200 meters wooden replica of a Japanese Atago-class heavy cruiser (dubbed the Muroc Maru) was constructed during 1943 on this lakebed for skip-bombing practice. The bright Sand dunes, under certain conditions, created the illusion of water. [Edwards Air Force Base History Office]

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Graf Zeppelin flying over Guanabara Bay, 25 May 1930.

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Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley, 1961.(NASA)

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Rocket Man just after lift off with the LRV, Hopi Buttes, Arizona, 1966.

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Apollo 1 Crew Members (June 1966). Prime crew members announced by NASA for the first manned Apollo 1 flight practice water egress procedures in a swimming pool at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. Astronaut Edward H. White II rides life raft in the foreground. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee sits in hatch of the boilerplate model of the spacecraft. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, third member of the crew, waits inside the spacecraft. The Apollo 1 never made it to space, though, as the crew was lost in a fire during a ground simulation. (NASA)

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Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, 1963.[NASA]

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Aerial view of Cinder Lake Crater Field 2, part of the training sites built for training site for the Apollo program [USGS].

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In 1967 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) created in Arizona a training site for the Apollo program. The craters, detonated with various explosives, looked similar to the ones found in particular landing sites on the Moon. In July of 1968, it was added a second crater field (in this photograph) at Cinder Lake [USGS].

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