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Apollo 1961-1975
The Apollo Missions were the third United States spaceflight program experimented by NASA who were the first to accomplish the Human landings on the Moon. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/index.html -
Apollo 1
Apollo 204 later on named as Apollo 1 was organised to be the first of Apollo's Missions.It's main target was to manned a lunar landing. The Apollo would've been successfully launched on 21st February 1967 but space astronauts White, Grissom and Chaffee lost their lives when a fire sparked in the Command Module. As the first mission there were no improvements made.
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Apollo 4
Apollo 4 was a tested unmanned mission that was constructed to test all Saturn V Launch vehicles and to return pictures of the earth. It was launched on 9th November and it was successful. An improvement made was thicker walls which helped to handle the increased pressure.
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Apollo 5
Apollo Mission 5 was the test flight of the Lunar Module. The missions intent were to verify the descent and ascent, and the restart operations of the first Lunar Modules functionality. The Mission was unsuccessful as it orbited around the moon once and then it orbited twice. After four more orbits, the remaining two stages were abandoned and the mission was over. Both the ascent and descent stages landed into the Pacific and decayed.One of the improvements had solid aluminum plates -
Apollo 7
The Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the command and service module. It's crew comprised of Lunar Module pilot Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Giselle and Commander Walter M. The spacecraft included significant changes such as an On board TV camera and oxygen face masks for emergency
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Apollo 8
Apollo Mission 8 was the first ever Lunar landing mission that was sucessful to take humans to the moon and back. It was also first of TV footage of the moon and pictures taken by humans of the earth from space. It was launched on December 21 1968. The main purpose was to advance the progress of landing the man on the moon.
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Apollo 9
The Apollo lunar hardware was used for the Apollo 9 mission.It was launched March 3rd 1969 at 11 AM. It's main aim was to improve mission support facilities performance.It was also aimed to space vehicle, demonstrate crew and mission support facilities.It was successful as all the primary objectives were achieved.The crew consisted Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickar, Command Module Pilot David Scott and Commander James McDivitt. The mission was sucessful as it also gathered visual information. -
Apollo 10
A successful staging of Apollo 11 mission without landing on the moon. It was the first mission to travel to the moon with the unified Apollo spacecraft intermission. It was also the runner-up to orbit the moon. Eugene Ceman, Thomas Stafford and John Young went into space on 18 May 1969. Their mission was to enact the moon landing without landing on the moon, to test that the plan to be used for the official moon landing. The mission as successful as the crew safely returnd to Earth 26/05/1969 -
Apollo 11
A lunar landing mission which was the first manned mission to land the moon.The manned mission including Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on another planetary body. Successfully, the Apollo 11 carried out its primary mission which set out the way for future Apollo lunar landings. -
Apollo 12
The Apollo 12 was the second manned mission to land on the moon successfully launched on 11 November 1969. In addition it was planned and executed a precision landing. One of its five mission objectives was to develop capability to work on the moon. A change made form the previous mission was it brought items from a previous mission back to earth to analyze the effects of long-term exposure to the environment of the moon, -
Apollo Mission 13
Apollo Misson 13 was launched on Aprill 11th 1970 at 2:13 pm The Mission was the third planned as lunar landing but instead, it circled around the moon 56 hours into the flight a spark caused from an exposed wire in Oxygen tank No2. which caused a fire and caused other machines to fail on the other side. The machines failed causing no Oxygens Water, Power to be provided. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo13.html -
Apollo 14
The third manned landing onto the mood launched 31 January 1971. Apollo 14 landed on the intended landing site of the terminated Apollo 13. It was aimed to perform detailed lunar exploration. The crew consisted Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and Stuart A. Roosa. Apollo 14 was a successful mission as they took colored photographs and collected samples. An improvement of Apollo 14 was that a color television camera was mounted to administer live coverage. -
Apollo 15
The fourth mission to land men onto the moon and the first flight of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The crew consisted of 3 passeners
