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  2. Apollo program - Wikipedia

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    The crew that flew the first Earth orbital test mission Apollo 7, Walter M. Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, were awarded the lesser NASA Exceptional Service Medal, because of discipline problems with the flight director's orders during their flight. In October 2008, the NASA Administrator decided to award them the Distinguished ...

  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 11 - Wikipedia

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    While Apollo 11 sparked the interest of the world, the follow-on Apollo missions did not hold the interest of the nation. [222] One possible explanation was the shift in complexity. Landing someone on the Moon was an easy goal to understand; lunar geology was too abstract for the average person.

  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. List of Apollo astronauts - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo program included three other crewed missions: Apollo 1 (AS-204) did not launch and its crew died in a ground-based capsule fire, while Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were low Earth orbit missions that only tested spacecraft components and docking maneuvers. Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled.

  7. NASA just released 9,200 Apollo mission photos that will ...

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    You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.

  8. Meet the awesome woman programmer behind the moon landing - AOL

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    According to Vox, astronauts utilized something called the Apollo Guidance Computer to navigate the spacecraft and Hamilton headed the team of MIT programmers that made it happen.

  9. List of Solar System probes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.