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Apollo Lunar Module 2

A complete, flight-built lunar module that never flew. It was constructed for a test flight that was cancelled when an earlier mission succeeded.

  • Revision: 1
  • Dates: 1969-01-01 (day precision)
  • Last reviewed: 2026-08-14
  • Status: Preserved in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collection
  • asset-library: asset_9d1583cd8bf19a42bb9a

The object

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Apollo Lunar Module 2, a complete two-stage lunar lander with foil-wrapped descent stage and angular ascent stage, on display in a museum gallery.
Present day Preserved in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collection.Credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationSource: canonical item pageRights: CC0; AUTO_USABLE (evidence recorded 2026-08-09)Transforms: autorotate — EXIF orientation applied where present; resize — fit within 640 px wide, aspect preserved, no enlargement; encode — AVIF quality 55

What this object shows

That the Apollo programme built more flight hardware than it flew, and that surviving vehicles of this kind are genuine production articles rather than replicas.

Orientation

Role: Crewed lunar landing vehicle, unflown

Chronology

  1. day precisionApollo Lunar Module 2 enters the record.

Related records

  • contemporary with

    What else was built for flights that never happened?

    Confidence: high · 1969-01-01 (year precision)

  • relates to

    The computer and the vehicle it was steering.

    Confidence: high · 1969-07-20 (day precision)

Inspect the record1 assertion, each with its source

  • Apollo Lunar Module 2 is held in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum collection; the rendition shown here is exported from that catalogued record with its credit and rights basis recorded.

    Source class: museum collection recordSmithsonian National Air and Space Museum collectionView the source

CorrectionsNone recorded

No corrections recordedThis record has not been corrected since it was published.