Re: Apollo 18, 19 hardware?

From: Jorge R. Frank (jrfrank_at_ibm-pc.borg)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:18:38 -0500

"Matt Wiser" <MattWiser_99@yahoo.com> wrote in news:41309d8d@bg2.:

> Does anyone know what happened to any hardware built for Apollos 18
> and 19 after both missions got the ax? I have heard the Apollo 18
> Saturn is at JSC Houston, and that the Apollo 18 LM was used in From
> the Earth to the Moon, but what about the CSM, or any of 19's
> hardware? Just curious about what happened-was the rest scrapped or
> put into museums somewhere? Thanks in advance.

The JSC Saturn V does indeed consist of all flight-rated stages, but they
did not all come from a single Saturn V.

The KSC Saturn V second and third stages were flight-rated, but the first
was a test stage.

Another flight-rated first stage wound up in front of the Michoud Assembly
Facility in Louisiana, where it was built.

See the Field Guide to American Spacecraft
<http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldguide/> for details. I am not sure if
this site has complete info on the CSM/LMs, though. 

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