Apollo LRM
Spacecraft · USA
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American manned lunar orbiter. Study 1969. Grumman proposed to use the LM as a lunar reconnaissance module. But NASA had already considered this and many other possibilities (Apollo MSS, Apollo LMSS); and there was no budget available for any of them.
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Chronology
1 event
1969 August 20
- MSC rejected a Grumman proposal to use the Apollo LM as a lunar reconnaissance module - .
Nation: USA.
Program: Apollo.
Spacecraft Bus: Apollo LM.
Spacecraft: Apollo LRM.
MSC rejected a Grumman proposal to use the LM as a lunar reconnaissance module. MSC pointed out that an MSC special task team had recently studied a number of proposals for lunar reconnaissance. These included use of a command module test vehicle, the AAP multiple docking adapter, the subsystem test bed, the ascent stage of the LM, and the entire LM vehicle.