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  2. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo program, ... The crucial difference between the requirements of Apollo and the missile programs was Apollo's much greater need for reliability. While the ...

  3. List of Apollo missions - Wikipedia

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    Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]

  4. Apollo (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to Earth. The expendable (single-use) spacecraft consisted of a combined command and service module (CSM) and an Apollo Lunar Module (LM).

  5. Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 - Wikipedia

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    Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States.The site and its collection of facilities were originally built as the Apollo program's "Moonport" [2] and later modified for the Space Shuttle program.

  6. 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.

  7. AS-201 - Wikipedia

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    AS-201 (Also known as SA-201, Apollo 1-A, or Apollo 1 prior to the 1967 pad fire), flown February 26, 1966, was the first uncrewed test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo command and service module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. The spacecraft consisted of the second Block I command module and the first Block I service module.

  8. Little Joe II - Wikipedia

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    The program was conducted under the direction of the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas, with joint participation by the prime contractors for the launch vehicle (General Dynamics/Convair) and spacecraft (North American Rockwell). The White Sands Missile Range administrative, range, and technical organizations ...

  9. Robert Beacham Dillaway - Wikipedia

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    While at North American Aviation, he was involved in its Rocketdyne division and helped design early missile rocket engines for the Atlas Missile program and engines for the Apollo missions. He became the director of space propulsion systems and worked there until 1964. [1] [3] [6]