Fly me to the moon

Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 11:34PM
Greg Jones in HDR, HDR, Museum, Museum, National Air and Space Museum, National Air and Space Museum, Space, Space, Spacecraft, Spacecraft, Travel, Travel, Washington DC, Washington DC

This is an actual lunar module which was built to fly in space during project Apollo. Its mission was to separate from the command module, fly about a hundred miles away and then link up with it again. This is the second of two test Lunar Modules built. It was never used because the first test item worked perfectly during the Apollo 9 mission.

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