The Apollo Spacecrafts:
Where Are They Now?

The Apollo Command Modules, which transported the three-man astronaut teams from the Earth to the Moon and returned them safely home, are currently displayed at various locations around the United States.

The Lunar Modules that carried the original dozen astronaut-explorers to the Moon's surface were targeted to deliberately crash back on the surface -- thereby creating artificial "moonquakes" for seismic experiments -- after returning their crews back to their respective Command Modules. The exception was the Apollo 13 LM, which served as a "life raft" for the crippled spacecraft as it hobbled home, then was destroyed upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Additionally, LM-13 -- intended to take a pair of astronauts to Crater Copernicus on the Apollo 19 mission in 1973 -- is displayed at the Cradle Of Aviation Museum on Long Island, New York. (The mission was cancelled; its predecessor flight, Apollo 18, took part in the historic Apollo-Soyuz docking but did not venture to the Moon.)

The list below gives the locations of the Command Module displays and Lunar Module impacts:

Apollo 11

Command Module "Columbia"
The National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

Lunar Module "Eagle" (Grumman LM-5)
Jettisoned from the Command Module on 21 July 1969 at 23:41 UT (7:41 PM EDT)
Impact site unknown

Apollo 12

Command Module "Yankee Clipper"
Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia

Lunar Module "Intrepid"
Impacted Moon 20 November 1969 at 22:17:17.7 UT (5:17 PM EST)
3.94 S, 21.20 W

Apollo 13

Command Module "Odyssey"
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas

Lunar Module "Aquarius"
Burned up in Earth's atmosphere 17 April 1970

Apollo 14

Command Module "Kitty Hawk"
Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, Florida

Lunar Module "Antares"
Impacted Moon 07 February 1971 at 00:45:25.7 UT (06 February, 7:45 PM EST)
3.42 S, 19.67 W

Apollo 15

Command Module "Endeavor"
U.S. Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio

Lunar Module "Falcon"
Impacted Moon 03 August 1971 at 03:03:37.0 UT (02 August, 11:03 PM EDT)
26.36 N, 0.25 E

Apollo 16

Command Module "Casper"
U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama

Lunar Module "Orion"
Released 24 April 1972, loss of attitude control made targeted impact impossible.
Impact site unknown

Apollo 17

Command Module "America"
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Lunar Module "Challenger"
Impacted Moon 15 December 1972 at 06:50:20.8 UT (1:50 AM EST)
19.96 N, 30.50 E

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