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Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the " H missions ", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular ...
NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ) [1] records the details of each mission's time on the lunar surface as a timeline of the activities undertaken, the dialogue between the crew and Mission Control, and the relevant documentary records. Each photograph taken on the mission is catalogued there and each photographic sequence is also recorded.
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
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]
Apollo 10: Apollo 10: 18 May 1969: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Success Lunar Module Snoopy: Orbiter: Success Dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. Lunar Module with two astronauts on board descended to a distance of 14.326 kilometres (8.902 mi) above the lunar surface. [69] 69: Luna E-8-5 No.402: Luna E-8-5 No.402: 14 June 1969: Proton-K/D: Lavochkin ...
On Feb. 9, 1971, NASA's Apollo 14 astronauts came home after the agency's third trip to the moon. Former U.S. Forest Service firefighter Stuart Roosa, the mission's command module pilot, returned ...
Apollo 14: Moon: 9 February 1971 Apollo 14: Third lunar landing. Shepard becomes only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon and hits a golf ball on the Moon's surface. 43 Vladimir Shatalov (3) Aleksei Yeliseyev (3) Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1) 23 April 1971 Soyuz 10: 25 April 1971 Soyuz 10: Unsuccessful attempt to board Salyut 1 space station. 44 ...
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