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Radiologically Controlled Area signage is seen inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday Oct. 31, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Radiologically Controlled Area is designated by the yellow barrier and signage inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday Oct. 31, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Radiologically Controlled Area signage is seen inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday Oct. 31, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

“Interior view of the Lunar Module (LM) 6 looking back to right side of tunnel. The Environmental Control System (ECS) package and the Oxygen Purge System (OPS) are shown in there stowed positions.

The Lunar Module (LM) is designed to transport two men safely from the Command Service Module (CSM), in lunar orbit, to the lunar surface and return to the CSM. The LM provides operational capabilities such as communications, telemetry, environmental support, the transport of scientific equipment to the lunar surface, and the return of surface samples with the crew to the CSM, and is designed to operate for 48 hours after separation from the CSM, with a maximum stay time of 44 hours.”

If dated correctly, the photograph was taken two weeks prior to delivery to the Kennedy Space Center. I have doubts about the OPS being flight hardware. Why would it be at Bethpage? I’d expect such to be received, inspected, tested(?) and stowed onboard the spacecraft at KSC. Although it does appear to be strapped down...on the ascent engine cover...maybe for shipment. Although that's not where it goes for flight.

OPS flight stowage for Apollo 11:

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ap11-PLSS-noID.jpg
Credit: ALSJ website

Note also that the Manufacturer (GAEC) identification plate has not yet been affixed to the spacecraft...to the right of the radioactive warning trefoil, on the forward face of the ascent engine cover. The plate is clearly visible in the linked photo.

Abundant identification plate discussion:

www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/001302.html
Credit: collectSPACE website

“Though no concrete plans are underway for a manned Mars visit early in the next century, several studies have been launched to investigate possibilities for such visits following possible unmanned missions. This artist’s concept depicts hardware which might be involved in the event manned visits ever occur. The artist, Pat Rawlings, depicts Pavonis Mons, a large shield volcano on Mars’ equator overlooking the ancient water eroded canyon in which the base is located. Hardware seen here include the Mars explorer, a traverse vehicle, a habitation module, a power module, greenhouses, central base, lightweight crane and trailer, launch and landing facility, water well pumping station, a maintenance garage, tunneling device, water well drilling rig, large dish antennae, mast antenna, even a Mars airplane.”

Above, from NASA (somewhere), at:

gizmodo.com/this-artists-cheerful-renderings-of-space-exp...
Credit: Gizmodo website

Note the radiation warning symbol (trefoil) on the trailing segment of the articulating roving vehicle.

I thought this was viewable at Mr. Rawlings' official site, where he often titled his works, which I was hoping to cite. Unfortunately, I'm either misremembering such, or it's not there anymore/now.

The following extract references the "OMG" aspect of the richly populated vista depicted:

"...A launchpad helps establish traffic between Mars and Earth; a caterpillar-like, nuclear-fueled truck helps explore the surface; train tracks lead into a cavern deep underground; while a geologist finds what appears to be evidence of early life on Mars. It also seems that establishing flying aircraft on Mars was a key component of the colonization plan."

At:

howwegettonext.com/the-improbable-bold-history-of-space-c...
Credit: How We Get To Next website/Darren Garrett

Mr. Rawlings' works are well worth taking a long & close look at. His clever & imaginative inclusion of nuanced humor & amusing elements, embedded within the amazing detail - may very well be unrivaled.

Fermilab Antiproton Source
The antiproton is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy.

The existence of the antiproton with −1 electric charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by Paul Dirac in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his previous 1928 publication of his Dirac Equation that predicted the existence of positive and negative solutions to the Energy Equation (E = mc^2) of Einstein and the existence of the positron, the antimatter analog to the electron, with positive charge and opposite spin.

The antiproton was experimentally confirmed in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. An antiproton consists of two up antiquark and one down antiquark (uud). The properties of the antiproton that have been measured all match the corresponding properties of the proton, with the exception that the antiproton has opposite electric charge and magnetic moment than the proton. The question of how matter is different from antimatter remains an open problem, in order to explain how our universe survived the Big Bang and why so little antimatter exists today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton

Fermilab Antiproton Source Department
www-bdnew.fnal.gov/pbar/


Picture taken by Michael Kappel at Fermilab
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