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Jordan and Parsons previously flew together on a 16-day orbital Apollo mission in 1969; Pollard flew on an Earth-orbital Apollo Applications Program mission in late 1970, becoming the first British astronaut in space. McIntyre suffered from a skin reaction during an earlier Apollo mission.
Vance D. Brand – from Group 5; was on the support crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 13; was named as Apollo 15 backup Command Module Pilot. Flew on the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (not a flight of the Apollo program). He also flew as commander of STS-5, STS-41-B and STS-35.
Johnny and Jane Apollo, 1968 plastic toys with accessories including a "Moon Rover". Barbie, the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume in the 1960s. Billy Blastoff, an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s.
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by NASA, which succeeded in landing the first men [2] on the Moon in 1969, following Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space.
List of fictional astronauts (Project Apollo era) ... (Project Mercury era) This page was last edited on 27 November 2017, at 18:41 (UTC). ...
"The Cassandra Project" (2010), short story Minerva: 2026 Joint US-Russian mission, first crewed Moon landing since Apollo 17. Landing in Mare Maskelyne. Mission omitted in 2012 novel adaptation. Sid Myshko named as commander of earlier orbital mission. [66] Base Diana: Cliff Devenish, Col. (Commander) Andrea "Andi" Carlisle, Maj. Jim Reeve, Capt.
Project Moonbase (1953), film United States Space Force Command (USSF SPACOM) Space station Project Moon Base: Magellan (renamed Moon Base #1) 1970 First lunar orbital mission turns into Moon landing when Wernher is unmasked as an impostor. The female Col. Briteis was the first human in Earth orbit in 1966. [129] [128] [130] [131] [132] Ludwig ...
Apollo 15 lands near Shackleton Crater, where ice deposits are discovered. A few years later, Jamestown Base and Zvezda Base are built and landed near the same crater. Apollo 22 is the second expedition to Jamestown. Apollo 24 (including Deke Slayton) is a crew rotation mission to Jamestown that has a S-IVB ignition failure. Apollo 25 is sent ...