Parts of the
flight computer would be a catch! Even those of the
Shuttle.
Forgive my ignorance, I was just a kid at the time, but weren't the
lunar landers abandoned to crash-land on the moon after the trip was
over? So is this stuff from prototypes or am I missing something?
No John, your not missing anything. The LM was lost after use but there
were protos, simulators, I believe one that was built but never got to fly
and of course spares for the ones built. I used to live on LI not to far
from PLANT-33 (Grumman Corp) who built the LM and did
go to the auctions
back in the 70s when the moon/aerospace shutdown occured. I
still have a
few trinkets around somewhere from stuff I bought then.
Allison