Grumman Aircraft designed and built lunar modules for NASA during the Apollo program. A handful never made it to space, though.
NASA ordered 15 space-grade moon ships for its Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. Ten of those vehicles, known as lunar modules, or LMs, launched into space. Astronauts landed six of them on the moon. After Congress canceled the Apollo program, museums put three spare LMs on display in Florida, New York, and Washington, DC. Grumman Aircraft , NASA's main contractor for the landing craft, did not finish two of them — LM-14 and LM-15. What was left of LM-15 was likely scrapped for metal.
NASA ordered 15 space-grade moon ships for its Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. Ten of those vehicles, known as lunar modules, or LMs, launched into space. Astronauts landed six of them on the moon. After Congress canceled the Apollo program, museums put three spare LMs on display in Florida, New York, and Washington, DC. Grumman Aircraft , NASA's main contractor for the landing craft, did not finish two of them — LM-14 and LM-15. What was left of LM-15 was likely scrapped for metal.
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