The Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) was built by Bell Aerosystems in 1964 as part of the Apollo Project to land on the moon, it was a vertical take-off and landing vehicle powered by a single jet engine. The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) was built by Bell Aerosystems in 1964 as part of the Apollo Project to land on the moon, it was a vertical take-off and landing vehicle powered by a single jet engine.
By always offsetting five-sixths of earth’s gravity, the vertically mounted turbofan engine enabled the LLTV to reproduce the characteristics of landing a lunar module on the moon’s surface. The LLTV was used to train America’s Apollo astronauts.
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