Hello all and thank you for letting me join your forum. I'm hoping someone here could point me in the right direction or give me some advice regarding a space hardware piece I have recently acquired for my NASA space collection.
The piece seen here is a segment from the launch control countdown display used during the Gemini and Apollo era missions The control console was located at the Kennedy Space Center. When the control room was updated the old consoles were removed and updated and a number of pieces including full consoles were obtained by Charles Bell a NASA engineer tasked with updating the control room.
I'm working on the assumption that when this piece was removed it was likely still functional(?). That may not be the case now but I do not know. What I would like to know is looking at what you see here would it be possible to illuminate it? I'm not looking to have it cycle through numbers but just to illuminate it fully if all the sections are functional. I would like to attempt this for display purposes.
Actually, in looking at it now from the back it appears that small bulbs may be set into the recessed sections within the individual triangles. Is this correct?
If this would be remotely possible what would be needed to complete the task?
Thank you all in advance for any advice or direction you could provide me.
The piece seen here is a segment from the launch control countdown display used during the Gemini and Apollo era missions The control console was located at the Kennedy Space Center. When the control room was updated the old consoles were removed and updated and a number of pieces including full consoles were obtained by Charles Bell a NASA engineer tasked with updating the control room.
I'm working on the assumption that when this piece was removed it was likely still functional(?). That may not be the case now but I do not know. What I would like to know is looking at what you see here would it be possible to illuminate it? I'm not looking to have it cycle through numbers but just to illuminate it fully if all the sections are functional. I would like to attempt this for display purposes.
Actually, in looking at it now from the back it appears that small bulbs may be set into the recessed sections within the individual triangles. Is this correct?
If this would be remotely possible what would be needed to complete the task?
Thank you all in advance for any advice or direction you could provide me.