U-2 80-1071 Taxi's to the holding point around 55 minutes while the crew do a system check and take off on a mission using call sign Pavan01

The Apollo lunar module, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972, was designed and built for NASA by Grumman Aircraft (today Northrop Grumman) at the company's facilities in Bethpage, New York. A total of 13 lunar modules were built in New York and six made lunar landings. All of them bear a nameplate reading, "Made in Bethpage, New York." The total cost of the LMs was $1.6 billion – about $15 billion today. Each one cost $110 million, although by the time they were flying to the Moon, Grumman said it could produce one for $40 million, if anyone wanted one. NASA engineers and astronauts alike, had concerns about the LM as it couldn’t be test-flown before it was used. It was designed for use only in a zero-gravity vacuum; there was no place on Earth to test it. Initially skeptical of the ugly little craft, the Apollo astronauts came to at least respect, if not love, the rugged LMs. David Scott, Apollo 9 Command Module Pilot and Commander of Apollo 15, was asked which of all the planes he’d…

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