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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.
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]
Twelve astronauts later flew unused Apollo command modules in the Apollo Applications Program's Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. Of the 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon, two went on to command a Skylab mission, one commanded Apollo–Soyuz, one flew as commander for Approach and Landing Tests of the Space Shuttle , and two commanded ...
Project Apollo was abruptly halted by the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, in which astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee died, and the subsequent investigation. [43] In October 1968, Apollo 7 evaluated the command module in Earth orbit, [44] and in December Apollo 8 tested it in lunar orbit. [45]
NASA report JSC-03600 Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items, Final Report, March 1978; NASA report listing dispositions of all rockets and spacecraft used in the Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyez Test Project and early shuttle missions, as of 1978.
NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969. [3] Wernher von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller space station (after his large one was not built) to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early ...
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.
Apollo was the third human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA, the space agency of the United States. It used Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicles, which were later used for the Skylab program and the joint American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. These later programs are thus often considered to be part of the overall Apollo program.