After watching the reenactment of Apollo 11 tonight on OETA I was curious about a few things.

[Snattlerake]

1 Collins in the command module did not hear the conversations between Houston and the Eagle during the landing because he was on the far side of the moon.

2 The Eagle's ascent module was jettisoned and was presumed to have crashed into the moon. But, in 2021 it was speculated that due to the data, the 1969 craft could still be in orbit around the moon.

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3 As with the Eagle, the Apollo 11 Service Module was also jettisoned and it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere.

4 Apollos 12 through 17 S-IVB stage and ascent stages have all crashed on the moon. The S-IVB stage housed the LEM while en route to the moon and the Apollo 13 through 17 S-IVBs were intentionally crashed to create moonquakes.

The way they got the fantastic films of the stages separating was through ejected camera pods.

Apollo Flight Journal - Ejectable camera pods

 

[SoonerP226]

Apollos 12 through 17 service modules

Those aren’t the Service Modules that were crashed into the moon, those are the Saturn IV Boosters (the part of the Saturn rocket that actually sent the Apollo missions to the moon). The Apollo Service Modules all came back to Earth attached to the Command Modules and were jettisoned on trajectories to send them into the ocean prior to the Command Modules’ reentry into the atmosphere.

 

[KOPBET]

1 Collins in the command module did not hear the conversations between Houston and the Eagle during the landing because he was on the far side of the moon.

Listening to Pink Floyd?

 

[Snattlerake]

Those aren’t the Service Modules that were crashed into the moon, those are the Saturn IV Boosters (the part of the Saturn rocket that actually sent the Apollo missions to the moon). The Apollo Service Modules all came back to Earth attached to the Command Modules and were jettisoned on trajectories to send them into the ocean prior to the Command Modules’ reentry into the atmosphere.

Thanks, corrected.

One from Apollo 12 was sent into a heliocentric solar orbit. Thirty years later it returned to the Earth and was in Earth orbit awhile.

How a long-gone Apollo rocket returned to Earth

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www.astronomy.com