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  2. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    Apollo used the Saturn family of rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three crewed missions in 1973–1974, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint United States-Soviet Union low Earth orbit mission in 1975.

  3. List of Apollo missions - Wikipedia

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    Once complete, it obviated the need for the E-type objective of a medium Earth orbital test. The D-type mission was instead performed by Apollo 9; the F-type mission, Apollo 10, flew the CSM/LM spacecraft to the Moon for final testing, without landing. The G-type mission, Apollo 11, performed the first lunar landing, the central goal of the ...

  4. Apollo 1 - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, [1] the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module .

  5. What Happened to Apollo 13? Inside the Near-Fatal 1970 NASA ...

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    Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...

  6. File:Apollo17 Ascent Trajectory.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Apollo 17 flight trajectory from liftoff to end of S-IVB first burn. - Altitude is given above Fischer Ellipsoid. E.g. at time 400s: EPO altitude 172km = 6545km geocentric distance = 167km above a spherical Earth of radius 6378.1 km

  7. Hadley–Apennine - Wikipedia

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    Orbital photo of the Hadley-Apennine site; Apollo 15 landing site is marked with a circle. Hadley–Apennine is a region on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed landing on the Moon and the first of the "J-missions", in July 1971.

  8. Return of Apollo 15 to Earth - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 15's LM Falcon as seen by the CSM Endeavour, during rendezvous. The object in the foreground is the EVA floodlight. The LM was placed into a 42 by 9 nm (77.8 by 16.7 km) orbit. Apollo 15 would be the first direct rendezvous, where the two craft would rendezvous within one orbit.

  9. Apollo Applications Program - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program. AAP was the ultimate development of a number of official and unofficial Apollo follow-on projects studied at various NASA labs. [ 1 ]