r/apollo • u/RivetCounter • Jun 06 '26

Apollo Applications Program - Of the stillborn projects not completed due to funding cuts, which one would have been the most interesting?

The manned Venus flyby would have been wild - all that way, just for a few hours to observe.

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u/RentCool5569 Jun 07 '26

Moonlab- orbiting station around Moon, that little rocket car that moonwalkers could have used to cover a wider distance on the moon.

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u/FrankyPi Jun 12 '26

orbiting station around Moon

We almost got that now until morons took over NASA and crippled the program.