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NASA crewed missions to the Moon

  • Apollo 1113 minApollo 11, launched on the 16th of July 1969, carried three astronauts toward a destination no human being had ever reached. Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin lifted…
  • Apollo 1210 minApollo 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 steadily and clouds sealed the horizon. President Richard Nixon stood watching as…
  • Apollo 1517 minApollo 15 launched on the 26th of July 1971, and from the moment it left the ground, it was a different kind of Moon mission. The crew carried redesigned space suits with a new waist joint that let them actually bend and sit. Their lunar…
  • Apollo 1714 minApollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the 7th of December 1972, blazing into the night sky above Florida. Approximately 500,000 people stood near Kennedy Space Center to watch. The light from the Saturn V rocket was…
  • Apollo 1411 minApollo 14 launched on the 31st of January 1971, carrying three astronauts on a mission that no one in the program could afford to lose. The previous flight, Apollo 13, had nearly killed its crew and ended human exploration of the Moon…
  • Apollo 1011 minApollo 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, and they were orbiting the Moon. What stopped them from landing was a deliberate…
  • Apollo 818 minThe night before Apollo 8 launched, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh visited the crew at Kennedy Space Center. Lindbergh described how he had prepared for his 1927 transatlantic crossing. He measured the New York to…
  • Apollo 1614 minApollo 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 had been sculpted by ancient volcanoes. They were wrong. Commander John Young,…
  • Apollo 1313 minApollo 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 Moon. Two days into the journey, a routine switch flip triggered something the…
  • Artemis II16 minArtemis II launched on the 1st of April 2026, carrying four astronauts away from Earth for the first time in more than fifty years. The last crew to travel this far from home had boarded Apollo 17 in 1972. For everyone born after that…

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