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Apollo 1
Apollo 1, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program, which had as its ultimate goal a manned lunar landing.The mission was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, Apollo 1 fire killed Roger Chaffee at Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex 34 in Florida. Chaffee, along with astronauts Virgil Grissom and Ed White II, died on Jan. 27, 1967, when a blaze erupted in their command module during preflight testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 -
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was an October 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States. It was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space.First manned test flight of the CSM. Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Command and Service Module. The crew orbited the Earth 163 times and spent 10 days and 20 hours in space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 -
Apollo 8
Apollo 8, became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth,the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program. it took three days to travel to the moon.The crew entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8 -
Apollo 9
Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Command/Service Module with the Lunar Module.Lunar module pilot Russel L. Schweickart performed a 37 minute EVA.The Apollo 9 mission was launched from Cape Kennedy at 11 a.m.The crew had remarkable success in sighting objects using the crewman optical alignment sight . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9 -
Apollo 10
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan decended inside the Lunar Module to within 14 kilometers of the lunar surface achieving the closest approach to the Moon before Apollo 11 landed two months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. . Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission - to perform a manned lunar landing and return the mission safely to Earth - and paved the way for the Apollo lunar landing missions to follow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 -
Apollo 12
The Apollo 12 mission was the second manned lunar landing mission. Its objective was to perform detailed scientific lunar exploration.This precision landing was of great significance to the future lunar exploration program, because landing points in rough terrain of great scientific interest could now be targeted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12 -
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon.but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later,Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission. Instead, in an instant, the spacecraft pivoted from a moon-bound landing unit to a crippled vessel. The spaceflight stands today as a demonstration of NASA innovation saving lives on the fly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13 -
Apollo 14
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions," targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks. In the nine months following Apollo 13, several modifications were made to the service module electrical power system, including redesign of the oxygen tanks and addition of a third tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14 -
Apollo 15
Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the United States' Apollo program, the fourth to land on the Moon, and the eighth successful manned mission.Apollo 15 Launch The space vehicle with a crew of David R. Scott, commander; Alfred J. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin. The successful Apollo 15 manned lunar landing mission was the first in a series of three advanced missions planned for the Apollo program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15 -
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. Apollo 16 was the second expedition to bring a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) along. The astronauts spent more than 20 hours exploring the surface of the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16 -
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the Moon. It carried the only trained geologist to walk on the lunar surface. The landing site for the final Apollo lunar landing mission, Taurus-Littrow, takes its name from the Taurus mountains and Littrow crater which are located in a mountainous region on the southeastern rim of the Serenitatis basin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
