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  • Apolo 2

    Apolo 2
    AS-203 (or SA-203) was the first unmanned flight of a Saturn IB rocket on 5 July 1966. It did not carry any command and service modules, as its purpose was to verify the design of the S-IVB’s stage restart capability. the rocket that would then be used in the Apollo program to propel astronauts from Earth orbit to a trajectory to the Moon. The targets were achieved, but the stage was inadvertently destroyed after four orbits.
  • Apolo 3

    Apolo 3
    Apollo 3 is the third test flight of the Apollo program, launched on 25 August 1966 by an unmanned Saturn IB vector in suborbital flight. This flight served to perform a manned landing on the Moon to perform tests on the command and service module (CSM) which is later recovered.
  • Apolo 4

    Apolo 4
    On 27 January 1967, during simulated launch tests aboard a Saturn IB, a fire broke out in the command capsule in which crew members Virgil Grissom (ship commander), Edward White and Doctor Roger Chaffee were burned.
  • Apolo 1

    Apolo 1
    Apollo 1 was the first manned mission of the United States space program known as the Apollo Program, whose ultimate goal was a manned moon landing. Apollo failed to meet its scheduled launch date of 21 February 1967, as of 27 January. of that year
  • Apolo 5

    Apolo 5
    Apollo 5 (AS-204) was an unmanned flight of the Apollo missions that took place on 22 January 1968 and used a Saturn IB rocket as a launch vehicle, the second phase of which was to be launched, after standing in orbit of parking and weightlessness, to drive the lunar module to a maximum point away from Earth of 18 340 km.
  • Apolo 6

    Apolo 6
    Apollo 6 (SA-502) was a United States unmanned space mission, launched on 4 April 1968. It was the second Apollo type A mission, and its last unmanned mission.
  • Apolo 7

    Apolo 7
    Apollo 7 was the seventh mission of the American program Apollo (officially called AS-205), launched on October 11, 1968 by a rocket of the type Saturn IB and with the second crew composed of astronauts Walter M. Schirra -commander-, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham.
  • Apolo 8

    Apolo 8
    Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the United States Apollo space program. The mission began on December 21, 1968 and was the first manned mission to leave Earth orbit, reach and orbit the Moon and finally return to Earth.
  • Apolo 10

    Apolo 10
    The Apollo 10 mission was the fourth manned mission of the Apollo program (officially called AS-505), launched on 18 May 1969 with Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan on board.1
  • Apolo 9

    Apolo 9
    Apollo 9 was the third manned space mission in the United States' Apollo program, the second to be sent into orbit by a Saturn V rocket, and the first flight of the command and service module with the Apollo lunar module. Apollo 9 was the third manned space mission in the United States' Apollo program, the second to be sent into orbit by a Saturn V rocket, and the first flight of the command and service module with the Apollo lunar module .They returned to Earth on March 13, 1969.
  • Apolo 11

    Apolo 11
    Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of the United States Apollo Program and the first in history to bring a human being to the Moon. The mission’s Apollo spacecraft was sent into space on 16 July 1969, landed on 20 July 1969, and the next day two astronauts (Armstrong and Aldrin) became the first to walk on the lunar surface.
  • Apolo 13

    Apolo 13
    Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission of NASA’s Apollo program and the third to land on the Moon. The spacecraft took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the moon landing had to be aborted due to an explosion in a service module oxygen tank after two days of mission. Instead of landing the crew circled the Moon and returned safely to Earth on April 17
  • Apolo 12

    Apolo 12
    Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission of NASA’s Apollo program, and the second to land. Launched almost four months after Apollo 11, Apollo 12 landed on the Oceanus Procellarum, very close to the American probe Surveyor 3, which had landed on April 20, 1967, and astronauts brought some pieces of this probe back to Earth for study, among them the camera.
  • Apolo 14

    Apolo 14
    Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon and the first to land on the lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions", directed landings with stays of two days on the Moon with two lunar EVA, or lunar walks.They were launched in their mission of nine days on Sunday 31 January 1971 at 4:03:02 p. m. EST. Takeoff was delayed forty minutes and two seconds,
  • Apolo 15

    Apolo 15
    Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission of the Apollo program (officially called AS-510), launched on July 26, 1971 by a rocket of the type Saturn V, in the direction of the Moon.It was the first of the missions of the type J, that is, with modifications in the spacecraft that allowed a flight duration of up to 14 days.
  • Apolo 16

    Apolo 16
    Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the US Apollo Space Program, the fifth and penultimate to land and the first to reach the mountainous areas of the Moon in the Descartes Highlands region.It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA at 12:54 EST on April 16, 1972. The mission lasted 11 days, 1 hour and 51 min, concluding at 14:45 EST on April 27 of the same year.
  • Apolo 17

    Apolo 17
    Apollo 17 was the last mission of NASA’s Apollo program and the last mission in which humans traveled and walked on the Moon. Launched at 12:33 a. m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a team composed of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, was the last use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo 17, additional Apollo spacecraft were used in the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs.