In this section

Photos of the Sim teams Types of Sims and the Super Constellation configurations List of Simulation flights to Honeysuckle Creek The Last Goddard Sim flight to Australia

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See also –

Preparing for Apollo at Honeysuckle Creek – by Hamish Lindsay Romantic interlude – story by Hamish Lindsay

Nevil Eyre took this photo of Super Constellation NASA 421 at Canberra Airport.

 

The Goddard Simulation Teams played a vital role in helping the tracking stations to prepare for missions. Specially equipped Super Constellations carried equipment and radio transmitters and transponders to simulate an Apollo spacecraft for the tracking station. See Preparing for Apollo for some of the background.

The Goddard Sim teams were frequent visitors to the skies over Honeysuckle.