Does anyone know what happened to the Command and Lunar modules of the cancelled missions Apollo 18, 19, and 20?
I believe the Apollo 18 Command and Service Modules were actually used in space-- in the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous and docking. There is a mockup of the docked vehicles in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, but I don’t remember if the museum display uses the actual recovered command module. Presumably the service module in that display isn’t the actual one used in the flight, since they were not recoverable.
I believe the Command Modules were used in later Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab missions. I found a list of Lunar Module locations here.
OK, looks like I was wrong. The Smithsonian display contains a test Apollo capsule that was never used in flight. The Soyuz capsule is also a test vehicle. The actual Apollo capsule from the Apollo-Soyuz mission is at Cape Canaveral. (All this is according to this page.) However, there is no information on that page tying any of the unlaunched capsules to any specific mission (Apollo 19 or 20). Perhaps they were never assigned, or the author of that page just didn’t have access to the information. Some were apparently used to transport astronauts to and from Skylab.
If I am not mistaken, the LEM at the Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell Field , Long Island was made for Apollo 18.
Either that or it was an extra one Grumman had kicking around the Bethpage plant.
No, you recall correctly postcards. The museum confirms it.
scr4’s list is really, really good too. Says that Franklin Institute has the LM for Apollo 19.
You mean I have to go all the way to the freakin’ moon to see all of them? Damnit! This is going to make completing my goal of getting a post card from each site even harder than it already was to finance a trip to London.
Screw it, I need a new hobby.
The “Snoopy” one in heliocentric orbit makes the moon ones look close.
Just what you were looking for: the location of all extant Apollo compnents: Apollo Maniacs.
Thanks, guys, Just what I was looking for.
Here’s a great story about how the Soviets actually recovered an Apollo capsule (although it was just a boilerplate test model).