Blanche writes:

There are multiple types of "shuttle simulator".

They are all simulators.

And I was talking about the Apollo program, not the Shuttle program.
One might conceivably train in a real shuttle (at horrendous expense,
of course), but not in a real Apollo vehicle.

for all the details. The pilot training includes a real aircraft
configured to fly like the high-powered brick...er...shuttle:

It's not a real shuttle, though. Therefore it is a simulator.

As for the moon landings, there was a full-size training device, again,
with similar characteristics as the moon lander. This is what Nomen
referred to.

But that's a simulator. The astronauts learned to do everything in
simulators. They had zero hours in the real thing when they finally
did go on a real mission to the moon.

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