Have the kooks starting using the film Gravity...

[ka9q]

As I understand it, Apollo 15 was originally meant to be another H-class mission. When the program was shortened it was cancelled as originally planned and made the first J-class extended mission. This probably moved up all the J-class hardware by one mission.

The J-class LMs had to be built as such, so LM-9, which was to be the H-class LM for Apollo 15, was put on display at Kennedy Space Center. As far as I know this is the only complete, unflown LM originally intended for a manned flight; LM-2 on display at the Smithsonian was originally built as a backup for LM-1 which flew unmanned on Apollo 5.

[smartcooky]

According to this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions  ,the CSM and LM originally slated for 18 were actually used on Apollo 17.

So that leaves the obvious question then, what happened to the Apollo 17 hardware?

I'd be interested to know if any of the Apollo hardware that was originally intended to go to the moon ended up on Apollo-Soyuz. Or was Apollo-Soyuz built from the ground up?

[Nowhere Man]

According to this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions  ,the CSM and LM originally slated for 18 were actually used on Apollo 17.

So that leaves the obvious question then, what happened to the Apollo 17 hardware?

I'd be interested to know if any of the Apollo hardware that was originally intended to go to the moon ended up on Apollo-Soyuz. Or was Apollo-Soyuz built from the ground up?

The linked WP article says that Apollo-Soyuz used the H-mission CSM that would have flown Apollo 15 before it was changed to a J mission.  So I suppose the hardware intended for A17 flew on A16, and the A16 hardware flew A15.

Nothing new was built after Apollo was cancelled.  All of the post-lunar flights used surplus hardware.

Fred

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

I'm more weirded out by the people who seem to think Apollo 18 was real...

I met Dick Gordon last year at Autographica, and I asked him if he saw the movie Apollo 18 and he looked a little irritated by my question and snapped "No!" back at me. I guess he was fed with being asked about it.