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To understand the history and purpose of the Apollo space program, you must understand what came before Apollo and the goals that the Apollo program wanted to accomplish. There were three primary space programs in the U.S. from 1958 through 1972. They were Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
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The Apollo program is one of the most famous in American history, if not the history of the world, for it represents the first time any human set foot on ... The main purpose of this craft was to take the the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) into Earth orbit and to test all aspects of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
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Apollo Images - Johnson Space Center; Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - Transcripts of Apollo communications; Apollo Missions - Lunar and Planetary Institute; The Apollo Program - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Apollo: Mission to the Moon - Kennedy Space Center; Apollo History - Kennedy Space Center;
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This NASA Fact sheet describes the contributions NASA Langley Research Center made to the first manned lunar landing. ... NASA Langley Research Center's Contributions to the Apollo Program ... The purpose of the project was to study the effects of reentry heating on spacecraft materials.
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This decision involved much study and review prior to making it public, and tremendous expenditure and effort to make it a reality by 1969. Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non- military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States;
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Program: Apollo. Objective: Manned. Type: Lunar spacecraft. Overview: The successful US project to land a man on the moon. ... The launch vehicle would thus achieve a high degree of reliability, while the guidance and payload could be varied according to purpose of the mission. Four general-purpose launch vehicles...
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www.astronautix.com/project/apollo.htm
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25.09 - The space shuttle carries astronauts to space and back.
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The Apollo program began to be seriously considered as soon as Russian Yuri Gagarin had become the first man to enter space in 1961. His flight provided the impetus for the US to fast track its space program particularly because this was th...
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Because of the excitement, the Apollo program to get a man to the Moon began with a terrible accident. On January 27, 1967, during a test on the launch pad, an electrical fire destroyed the first Apollo capsule and killed the ... What was the purpose of the Apollo 8, 9, and 10 missions, and what did each one do?
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