The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal. Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return ... Apollo Crewed Earth Orbiting Missions...
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This is a list of all astronauts directly associated with NASA's Apollo program . A total of thirty-eight astronauts flew in Apollo spacecraft, twenty-nine of whom were part of the Apollo program,...
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These missions not only advanced scientific understanding of Earth's nearest neighbor; ... Apollo 8 was more than a technical triumph, more even than a milestone in exploration: It was a mountaintop experience for the entire human species. A single photograph from Apollo 8, showing Earth rising beyond the moon's barren horizon,
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An object found Sept. 3 to be orbiting Earth every 50 days is most likely a rocket booster leftover from the Apollo era, a NASA scientist said today. ... Newfound Object Orbiting Earth is Likely Apollo Junk ; By Robert Roy Britt; Senior Science Writer; posted: 01:25 pm ET; 11 September 2002;
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Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit; Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module.
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President Gerald R. Ford watches Apollo Soyuz Test Project crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton and Valeriy N. Kubasov on television as he talks to them via radio-telephone as they orbited the Earth on July 18, 1975. The American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft were docked during this,
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When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA's plan was to continue manned lunar missions through Apollo 20. But history turned out differently. The last three missions, still in planning stages, were canceled. Hardware that would have flown to the moon ended up as museum exhibits. ... Dispatches from the Bottom of the Earth:
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"Luna 9" made the first soft landing on the Moon in 1966. Man himself landed in 6 missions on the Earth's Moon between 1969 - 1972. ... 3 astronauts died before launch at tests (Apollo 1); 9 astronauts orbited the earth only for tests (Apollo 7,9 & Soyez-Project); 6 astronauts orbited the earth and moon only for tests (Apollo...
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The manned Apollo missions began with Apollo 7's Earth orbit, which launched 11 October 1968 and splashed down on 22 October 1968. Apollo 8 launched on 21 December 1968, orbited the moon and returned to Earth 27 December 1968. Apollo 9 was another Earth orbit mission, launching 03 March 1969, testing the lunar module...
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