A-LOTS - Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System
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A-LOTS Pod mounted on the cargo door of ARIA 61-0327. Picture taken by Bob Burns from his Connie, NASA 422, in June 1967. He writes, "We were over northern Texas, coming back from Category II Acceptance Testing out over the Gulf of Mexico, heading back to Tulsa, Oklahoma."
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Closeup of the A-LOTS Pod
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A-LOTS Control Console
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Image The 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (A-LOTS) tracking camera mounted on the Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft, at about 40,000 feet altitude, photographed the liftoff of Apollo 11 lunar landing mission during the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch on 7/16/1969.
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Apollo 8 reentry A-LOTS photograph. Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:15 a.m., December 27, 1968, in the central Pacific approximately 1,000 miles South-West of Hawaii.
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