Command Modules where are they now?

[ascan1984]

Command Modules where are they now?

 

[mattblack]

This site will tell you where they are, along with other vehicles:<br /><br />http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldguide/pages/lunarmod/index.html<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p>One Percent of Federal Funding For Space: America <strong><em><u>CAN</u></em></strong> Afford it!!  LEO is a <strong><em>Prison</em></strong> -- It's time for a <em><strong>JAILBREAK</strong></em>!!</p> </div>

 

[davp99]

Hopefully someday we will be able to Grab the Only LeM still in Solar Orbit..For some reason that LeM has always peeked my Interest.....<br />and when we return to the Moon, it will Wild to see All the LeMs that were crashed into the Lunar Surface... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="4">Dave..</font> </div>

 

[drwayne]

I thought I was the only one fascinated with that ascent stage. Maybe one day, finding it will be something like a Ballard discovery.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[davp99]

Nope Doc, i always wondered about that LeM, and it just isn't any ole LeM, but the Apollo 11 "Eagle"...somewhere drifting in Space....just as Neil & Buzz left her... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="4">Dave..</font> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Not quite....<br /><br />A few years back, some sub-morph greys (not even old enough to orb) shot out the LEM windows with a NeeBee gun. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[najab]

><i>...Apollo 11 "Eagle"...somewhere drifting in Space....</i><p>Sorry to dissappoint you, but Eagle impacted the Moon a few weeks (months?) after Neil and Buzz returned to Earth. The LM in heliocentric orbit is from Apollo 10 - Stafford and Cernan's 'Snoopy'</p>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Nope Doc, i always wondered about that LeM, and it just isn't any ole LeM, but the Apollo 11 "Eagle"...somewhere drifting in Space....just as Neil & Buzz left her...<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />It's possible that she will return to us, as the Apollo 12 S-IV-B did. I'm pretty sure it's still orbiting the Earth as asteroid J002E3. It was recaptured by the Earth's gravity just a few years ago, having passed through the Sun-Earth L1 point. (Lagrange points can serve as gateways between heliocentric and geocentric orbit, a fact which may be exploited on future deep space missions, although it requires extremely careful planning.) If it hasn't already escaped again, it will, by passing again through L1.<br /><br />Apollo 11's S-IVB is still out there too, as are those from Apollos 8 and 10. Apollos 13-17 were targetted so that their S-IVBs would strike the moon, generating impacts for seismic studies by the ALSEP packages left by previous missions. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

No, the ascent stage from Apollo 11 ended up in a lunar orbit that eventually decayed (yes, lunar orbits *do* decay). The one placed in solar orbit was either 10 or 12 - I'll look it up in a bit when I have a few minutes.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

OK, it is "Snoopy" from Apollo 10 that is in heliocentric orbit.<br /><br />12's ascent stage (Intrepid) did impact on the moon at a well determined spot. 11's ascent stage impact site is not known.<br /><br />http://cybercenter.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/spacecraftlm.htm<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[najab]

><i>I'll look it up in a bit when I have a few minutes.</i><p>Or...you could look up two posts higher in the thread! <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /></p>

 

[drwayne]

That's weird, I didn't see that post when I posted mine.<br /><br />I remember reading someone claiming in some Arpanet posts back in the mid 1980's that the Eagle was still in lunar orbit at that time, but I don't know if that was a mistake, a mis-direction, or factual.<br /><br />Wayne<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

The Apollo 16 ascent module (Orion) had its pre-planned collision with the moon screwed up by a loss in attitude control, and ended up in lunar orbit for a while.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

One more bit of trivia - the Apollo 10 descent stage is the only descent stage to be released into a lunar orbit.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

Can you tell I am waiting for someone? Interesting site I bumped into:<br /><br />http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jun2001/991783298.As.r.html<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[yurkin]

LM-14 from the cancelled Apollo 19 mission is lost. How do you lose a Lunar module? I bet one of the Apollo engineers liberated it from Nasa after the program was canceled. It’s probably somebody’s attic.

 

[SpaceKiwi]

That would be a hefty attic! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

I would really like to see where those SIVB's augered in.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

Of course, I would have liked to have seen the fireworks show that was the re-entry of the Apollo 13 LM.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[davp99]

Glad to see the Gang jump in with my memory loss, how could i get Eagle confused with Snoopy...<br />oh well..<br />still though, theres a ton of Stuff to relocate when we finally get back to the Moon.... Heres Hoping that we'll ALL still be Alive to See it ......... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="4">Dave..</font> </div>

 

[drwayne]

I guess I am getting to be an old fart, as a big part of me says I will not see men on the moon, or Mars in my lifetime.<br /><br />But, one day in the future, to see that ascent stage come home.....wow....I wonder how it will feel to the people of the future? Will it be like the rediscovery of the Titanic?<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

Thats a fascinating thought!<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[drwayne]

I didn't know until I was puttering around looking some things up yesterday that the load of fuel in the Apollo 10 ascent stage was not sufficient to return to the CM had they actually landed.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>

 

[najab]

There was some dissent in the Astronaut Office since that Apollo 8 had already proven the CSM at Lunar orbital distances and 9 had proven the LM in manned flight there was no need for the 'F' mission. They were pressing to skip the 'F' mission entirely and land on Apollo 10.<p>Von Braun and company insisted that the 'F' mission was needed to prove rendezvous in Lunar orbit. From what I've heard the debate raged hot and heavy for quite some time and wasn't settled until Grumman said that they couldn't bring LM 4 up to landing standard in time to support the launch. Even so, Stafford and Cernan joked that they might have to "abort to the surface" - I'm sure that played at least a minor part in the decision to <b>not</b> give them enough fuel to give it a try (though I suspect mass limitations were the main reason).</p>

 

[drwayne]

It had always seemed to me that 9 was such a bold flight, and that 10 was much more careful.<br /><br />I think 9 is underappreciated, being the first time we put men in a spacecraft that could not re-enter and had them fly around up there. Sure, if something went really wrong they were probably still OK, but still, it was a pretty ballsy flight.<br /><br />Wayne <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>"1) Give no quarter; 2) Take no prisoners; 3) Sink everything."  Admiral Jackie Fisher</p> </div>