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Apollo Program

Also Known As Project Apollo
Crewed Lunar Program Missions
Staged Launch Vehicle

NASA's program to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth, fulfilling President John F. Kennedy's 1961 goal. It succeeded with Apollo 11 in 1969 and carried out six crewed lunar landings in total between 1969 and 1972.

Facts
Mission Type
Crewed lunar landing program 1
Launch Date
1961-05-25 2
Date of Kennedy's speech committing the nation to the goal; the first crewed Apollo flight, Apollo 7, launched in 1968.
End Date
1972-12-19 2
Splashdown of Apollo 17, the last crewed lunar mission.
Outcome
Successful; six crewed lunar landings (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17), with Apollo 13's landing aborted after an in-flight explosion but its crew returned safely. 1
Mission Type
Mission Type (category)
Crewed Lunar Landing 1
Mission Type (category)
Crewed Mission 1
Connections

Associated With

George Mueller, Pioneers

Introduced all-up testing for the Saturn V used throughout Project Apollo.

Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source Wikipedia: George Mueller (engineer)George Mueller (NASA), NASA and the Apollo program section
Source A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo AstronautsAndrew Chaikin
John Houbolt, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source John Houbolt (Wikipedia)John Houbolt, lead section

Led development of the Apollo Guidance Computer's flight software.

Source A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo AstronautsAndrew Chaikin
Van Allen Radiation Belts, Concepts

Apollo crews passed through the Van Allen belts on trajectories planned to limit exposure.

Yuri Kondratyuk, Pioneers

His lunar orbit rendezvous concept, published decades earlier, was the mission mode NASA engineers ultimately adopted for the Apollo Moon landings.

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Crewed By

Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)

Long-Form Articles

Operated By

Source NASA History Office

Spacecraft Of

Source Wikipedia: Apollo (spacecraft)
Source Wikipedia: Apollo command and service module
Source Wikipedia: Apollo command and service module
Source Apollo Lunar Module (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Andrew Chaikin
2. NASA History Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NASA, The Apollo Program (nasa.gov/the-apollo-program)
    Project Apollo's goals went beyond landing Americans on the moon and returning them safely to Earth.
  • Operated By: NASA
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Wikipedia: Apollo program
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Apollo program, lead section
    The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
  • Includes: Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo program article, lead section (CSM component)
    Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM)
  • Includes: Apollo 8, Apollo 8
    Apollo program
  • In Group: Apollo Program Missions, Lead sentence
    The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
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Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Crewed By: Gene Cernan, Gene Cernan, lead paragraph section
    commanded Apollo 17
  • Associated With: Yuri Kondratyuk, Yuri Kondratyuk (Wikipedia) - Apollo adoption
    the strategy eventually adopted by the engineers of the Apollo program
  • Includes: Apollo 10, Apollo 10
    Program: Apollo program
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Apollo Lunar Module (Wikipedia)
  • Includes: Apollo Lunar Module, Lead paragraph, part-of
    The Apollo Lunar Module (LM ), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program.
  • Spacecraft Of: Apollo Lunar Module, Lead paragraph, mission-of
    The Apollo Lunar Module (LM ), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program.
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Wikipedia: Apollo command and service module
  • Spacecraft Of: Apollo Command/Service Module, Lead paragraph, mission-of
    The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
  • Spacecraft Of: Apollo command and service module, Lead sentence
    The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
  • Includes: Apollo command and service module, Lead sentence
    The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed 12 astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
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John Houbolt (Wikipedia)
Associated With: John Houbolt, John Houbolt, lead sectionView the Source
Wikipedia: George Mueller (engineer)
Associated With: George Mueller, George Mueller (NASA), NASA and the Apollo program sectionView the Source
Apollo 1 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 1, Apollo 1
Quote, Includes: Apollo 1, Apollo 1
Apollo program
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Apollo 7 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 7, Apollo 7
Quote, Includes: Apollo 7, Apollo 7
the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program
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Apollo 9 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 9, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 9, Lead section
Apollo 9 (March 3-13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon.
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Apollo 12 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 12, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 12, Lead section
Apollo 12 (November 14-24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon.
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Apollo 14 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 14, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 14, Lead section
Apollo 14 (January 31 - February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program operated by NASA, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands.
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Apollo 15 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 15, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 15, Lead section
Apollo 15 (July 26 - August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the Apollo program and the fourth Moon landing.
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Apollo 16 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 16, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 16, Lead section
Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon.
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Apollo 17 (Wikipedia)
Includes: Apollo 17, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Apollo 17, Lead section
Apollo 17 (December 7-19, 1972) was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.
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Wikipedia: Apollo (spacecraft)
  • Spacecraft Of: Apollo (spacecraft), Lead sentence
    The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to Earth.
  • Includes: Apollo (spacecraft), Lead sentence
    The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to Earth.
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