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I am currently researching Apollo-7 for the purposes of creating and 
documenting detailed drawings of the Saturn-IB launch vehicle. This is for 
the purpose of building detailed scale models. 

A number of details have been documented by drawings and other materials 
obtained from Marshall. And some from photos taken of the two Saturn IB's 
on display (one in north Alabama [I-65 welcome center], and one at KSC).

But, some details are still not resolved, mostly related to the spacecraft 
(especially boost cover) and portions of the launch vehicle that are not 
accurately represented in the two display vehicles.

So, the point of this, I'm trying to locate photographs taken of the 
actual Apollo-7 vehicle and spacecraft (Service Module, and the boost 
cover/escape system). I do have some photos which show the whole vehicle 
on the pad from top to bottom, which are useful, but no detailed closer-up 
photos (some details are hinted at in such photos, but no way to see what 
the details really are).

I know that NASA created some videodiscs about 10 years ago or so that 
catalogued thousands and thousands of photos, I think one disc was 
dedicated to the Apollo program itself. I would like to obtain such a disc 
to be able to go through it photo by photo to locate the kinds that would 
be useful, assuming that the photos on ths video disc did include the 
photo number for each, then I could use those numbers to get good quality 
8 x 10 photographs printed by the appropriate NASA photocontractor.

I asked about this on NASA Spacelink, and got a response indicating the 
file to look in which listed commercial material. Unfortunately, the file 
listings did not seem to have what I was looking for, the closest thing 
was an Apollo-17 videodisc that included videomovie footage and then some 
limited still photos. Of course, Apollo-17 was launched by a Saturn-V, 
while what I'm looking for is Apollo-7 which was launched by a Saturn-IB.

Does anyone know of who might have Apollo program videodiscs that have the 
kind of numerous photo stills (with the critically important photo 
numbers) I'm talking about? Or suggest some other NASA branch to ask?

Of course, ideally, I'd love to go somewhere to look through the actual 
photo files in person, but even if I knew where it would be hard to 
justify doing so (I'm in the Birmingham, AL area). I'm hoping to find the 
right kind of videodisc of stills that will be almost the same, which at 
least 10 years ago WAS possible. I just hope such a videodisc still 
exists.

Thanks for any info you can give.

- George Gassaway

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