"Jens Schweikhardt" wrote in message
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Dean Markley wrote
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# On the moon missions (8, 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17) what happened to
# the Saturn V third stages after they boosted the Apollo CM out of Earth
orbit?
The third stage was commonly called S-IVB (ess four bee). They ended up
in quite different places. Apollos 8 thorough 12 left their S-IVBs in a
heliocentric orbit, while Apollos 13 and beyond crashed their third
stage into the Moon--deliberately to cause seismic events of known
energy.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB
Regards,
Jens
In the link provided, it's worth clicking through to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
As that may be Apollo 12's...
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