Name: The Mysterious Case Of NASA's Missing $1.1 Billion Moon Lander | Beyond Earth
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and audio recordings of its Apollo missions.

Narrator: So there's little left about these missions

that we don't already know, except for one mystery

that's been hiding in plain sight for decades:

One of NASA's Apollo lunar modules may be missing.

And not even NASA seems to know where it is.

Houston: Engines on five, four, three, two,

Each one was labeled Lunar Modules 1 through 15

Newscaster: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts

as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module,

Mosher: NASA launched 10 of these lunar landers into space.

Six of them landed on the surface of the moon

And there were five that were left on the ground.

Narrator: Three of those five that never went to space,

Lunar Modules 2, 9, and 13, are in museums,

So that leaves us with one lunar lander, LM-14.

but if you go up one row and you look at Lunar Module 14,

and that's what started this adventure in the first place.

Once complete, they're the size of a small house

Mosher: Now, when we started looking into Lunar Module 14,

It didn't say anything about it being scrapped.

It didn't say it was in any institution or museum.

the Cradle of Aviation Museum didn't know,

Mosher: But one of the experts that we talked to said,

hey, I think it's at the Franklin Institute

It was an early prototype from the Apollo program,

a lunar module that was never supposed to fly into space.

Narrator: And then we got a lead. Sort of.

Mosher: There was a document from March 1978

which is the page that describes where Lunar Module 14

would be located or what happened to it, if anything.

like some sort of Hollywood spy thriller,

Even one of NASA's historians looked for us

And the same went for the National Archives.

We finally got some clue as to what happened to it

from University of Houston's space archive.

Mosher: Hi, this is Dave Mosher with Business Insider.

So, I heard you found Page 9 of that document.

Can you read it to me, tell me what is says?

Jean: Next to LM-14, it says "Mission Cancelled."

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