List of apollo programs

It was originally intended to create a three-person spacecraft, which would follow on from the work of the original one-person Project Mercury and two-person Project Gemini spacecraft. The overall mission goal changed in when President Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. To complete said goal would be an enormous undertaking.

At one point during the program, NASA employed over , people, and required support from 20, industrial firms and universities. The penultimate moment of the program came with the Apollo 11 mission which intended to land humans on the moon. Despite the many successes of the program, it did not come without its failures. The AS mission ended in failure when a fire broke out on the launch pad. Pad Abort Test Little Joe II qualification test.

Investigated effects of weightlessness on fuel tanks of S-IVB. Sometimes informally called Apollo 2. Sub-orbital test flight of Command and Service Module.

Sometimes informally called Apollo 3. Apollo 4. Apollo 6. Saturn INT Last flight of Saturn V booster. Unlaunched - On 27 January Gus Grissom , Edward White , and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire erupted in their Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad. First manned Apollo flight, first manned flight of the Saturn IB. Only manned Apollo launch not from LC Charlie Brown. Yankee Clipper. First precise manned landing on the Moon. Recovered part of Surveyor 3 probe.

Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19 , but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, Joe Engle had trained on the backup crew for Apollo 14 to explore the Moon with Cernan, but Engle was replaced by Schmitt on the primary crew for Apollo Schmitt had previously been crewed with Apollo 12 command module pilot Dick Gordon in anticipation of Apollo 18, but Schmitt replaced Engle on Apollo 17 after the cancellation of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19, leaving Gordon as the last Apollo astronaut to train extensively for lunar exploration without ever landing on the Moon.

Besides the 12 people who have walked on the Moon, 12 more have flown to within 0. During each of the six missions with successful lunar landings, one astronaut remained in lunar orbit while the other two landed. In addition, the three-person crews of Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 also entered lunar orbit, and the crew of Apollo 13 looped around the Moon on a free-return trajectory. All nine manned missions to the Moon took place as part of the Apollo program over a period of just under four years, from 21 December to 19 December Of the 24 people who have flown to the Moon, 16 are still living as of [update].

Young and Cernan each set foot on it during their respective second lunar missions, while Lovell is the only person to have flown to the Moon twice without landing. During Cernan's first lunar mission on Apollo 10, he tied the present record set by Bill Anders on Apollo 8 as the youngest person to fly to the Moon. Each was 35 years and 65 days old on his launch date and 35 years and 68 days old when he entered lunar orbit. The oldest person to fly to the Moon was Alan Shepard , who walked on its surface during the Apollo 14 mission.

Shepard was 47 years and 74 days old on his launch date and 47 years and 78 days old when he entered lunar orbit. Coincidentally, due to the Moon's distance from Earth at the time, they simultaneously set the present record for humans' greatest distance from Earth, reaching an altitude of , km , mi above sea level at UTC on 15 April Template:Space exploration lists and timelines.

Space Shuttle. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? List of Apollo astronauts. Edit source History Talk 0. Eugene Cernan operating the Lunar Roving Vehicle during Apollo 17 Thirty-two astronauts were assigned to fly in the Apollo manned lunar landing program.

For the film, see Moonwalkers film. Mueller , Associate Administrator of the Office of Manned Spaceflight, issued a directive on April 24, , that the mission would be officially recorded as Apollo 1, "first manned Apollo Saturn flight - failed on ground test. Retrieved March 3, Americans alive at the time remember it as the night of July 20, Armstrong set foot on the Moon at p.

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