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The launch vehicle for Apollo 10 was a Saturn V, designated AS-505, [46] the fifth flight-ready Saturn V to be launched and the third to take astronauts to orbit. [47] The Saturn V differed from that used on Apollo 9 in having a lower dry weight (without propellant) in its first two stages, with a significant reduction to the interstage joining ...
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Launch date Crew Launch vehicle [b] CM name LM name Duration Remarks Refs Apollo 1: February 21, 1967 Launch Complex 34 (planned) Gus Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee: Saturn IB (SA-204) — — — Never launched. On January 27, 1967, a fire in the command module during a launch pad test killed the crew and destroyed the module.
See TIME's photos of Americans who watched Apollo 11 lift off for the moon on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
His final space mission was in 1975 on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which was the first international space mission and demonstrated the first ever docking of American and Soviet spacecraft.
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1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...