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Crewed Apollo missions
- Apollo 11Apollo 11, launched on the 16th of July 1969, carried three astronauts toward a destination no human being had ever reached.
- Apollo 7Apollo 7 launched on the 11th of October, 1968, the first American spacecraft to carry a crew in nearly two years. The men inside were not breaking new…
- Apollo 12Apollo 12 launched into a sky that had no business sending anyone to the Moon. On the 14th of November 1969, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rain fell…
- Apollo 15Apollo 15 launched on the 26th of July 1971, and from the moment it left the ground, it was a different kind of Moon mission.
- Apollo 17Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 7th of December 1972, blazing into the night sky above Florida.
- Apollo 14Apollo 14 launched on the 31st of January 1971, carrying three astronauts on a mission that no one in the program could afford to lose.
- Apollo 1Apollo 1 never left the ground. On the 27th of January, 1967, three astronauts -- Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B.
- Apollo 10Apollo 10 came within 7.8 nautical miles of the Moon's surface in May 1969 and then turned back. The crew had a working spacecraft, they had the training…
- Apollo 16Apollo 16 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the 16th of April, 1972, carrying three men toward a highland plain that scientists were certain…
- Apollo 9Apollo 9 launched on the 3rd of March 1969, carrying three men into low Earth orbit aboard the first complete Apollo spacecraft ever flown.
- Apollo 13Apollo 13 launched from Kennedy Space Center on the 11th of April, 1970, carrying three astronauts toward what should have been humanity's third walk on the…