In the LUT cosmos, the Command Module Service Arm, or Swing Arm 9 for short, represents a vast subuniverse.

As mentioned before, it has been refined and redesigned several times, and if you take a close look at the photos from that time, you'll see a surprising variety of species in the White Room.

Command Module Service Arm

Command Module Service Arm

There isn't much of the initial version left at the time of the first moon landing. Dozens of stabilizers had to deal with the wind problem, and the original space requirement was probably too small. Which again leads us to the annoying problem of missing plans and references. However, this time the research reached a new dimension - from the usual suspects to the Smithonian National Air and Space Museum to a Saturn project in the Czech Republic. The shape of the connector to the Apollo capsule is completely incomprehensible to ordinary mortals among the geometricians, which has to do with its asymmetric access and dimensional necessities of fixed key data, which is why I decided to approach the part from the side of the Apollo capsule, more precisely about its condom, the Boost Protective Cover, which seamlessly connects to the connector.

Command Module Service Arm

Command Module Service Arm

Unfortunately there is even less information about the BPC than about the White Room, David Weeks' plans are not very helpful for the BPC. So the last weeks were dedicated to an intensive fact finding mission, meanwhile I could produce the Boost Covers myself.

Command Module Service Arm

Command Module Service Arm

Here is the complete arrangement. The paper swing arm indulges in a certain love of detail, which here and there may appear a little more accentuated, but never leaves the virtuous path of frugality or even loses its sense of proportion.