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In the NASA report "Scientific Rationale Summaries for Apollo Candidate Lunar Exploration Landing Sites" from March 11, 1970, Apollo 18 is targeted for Copernicus, and Apollo 19 is assigned Hadley rille (the eventual landing site of Apollo 15). The Apollo 20 mission had been canceled two months before, but the report still suggested its target ...
The Saturn V's all-up testing strategy and relatively good success rate accomplished the first Moon landing on the sixth flight, leaving ten available for Moon landings through Apollo 20, [44] but waning public interest in the program led to decreased Congressional funding, forcing NASA to economize. First, Apollo 20 was cut to make a Saturn V ...
In rotation to land on Apollo 20 (canceled). 10 Al Worden (NASA Astronaut Group 5) February 7, 1932: March 18, 2020 (aged 88) 39: Apollo 15 July 26 – August 7, 1971: Air Force: 11 Ken Mattingly (NASA Astronaut Group 5) March 17, 1936: October 31, 2023 (aged 87) 36: Apollo 16 April 16–27, 1972: Navy
The contracted batch of 15 Saturn Vs was enough for lunar landing missions through Apollo 20. Shortly after Apollo 11, NASA publicized a preliminary list of eight more planned landing sites after Apollo 12, with plans to increase the mass of the CSM and LM for the last five missions, along with the payload capacity of the Saturn V.
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
NASA explains. The Apollo 11 crew bent some of the rods intended to hold the flag out straight, which added some ripples. ... Service workers union rejoins AFL-CIO after 20 years just ahead of ...
Aside from NASA, a number of entities and individuals observed, through various means, the Apollo missions as they took place. On later missions, NASA released information to the public explaining where third party observers could expect to see the various craft at specific times according to scheduled launch times and planned trajectories. [8]
Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.. Launched in 1970, what was meant to be the third moon landing became a desperate fight for ...