Apollo Space Capsule - City of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
N 42° 57.977 W 085° 40.607
16T E 607913 N 4757919
This original Apollo space capsule sits in front of the Van Andel Museum Center. The capsule is a test boilerplate (BP-1227) that was lost by NASA, recovered by the Soviet Union in 1969, then returned to the USA in 1970.
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Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2012
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Apollo Space Capsule owned by the National Air & Space Museum and on loan to the city of Grand Rapids until 2076.
"The truth only emerged 32 years later - the Soviets recovered an Apollo space capsule in 1970...
In 2002 this web site broke the story that the Soviet Union had recovered an Apollo capsule in 1969 and returned it to the Americans a year later in the extraordinary Cold War visit to Murmansk by the American Coast Guard icebreaker Southwind. Recently Michael Stronski, a Southwind crew member, has provided additional extraordinary photographs of the event" Source: (
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