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The Apollo Missions

The Apollo missions were the first manned missions to the moon.

in all there were six moon landings, out of seventeen missions. all but one successful.

from a rocky start with the deaths of three great space explorers to blasting of to the final destination...the moon

Apollo1 January 27, 1967 Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee	Apollo one astronauts never actually made it to space. In a test run they put pure oxygen in the capsule. then an electrical fire started and burned brightly using all the oxygen in the craft. The astronauts could not get out using the emergency exit.
Apollo 8 launched December 21, 1968	Apollo eight was the first successful Apollo mission. Even though this Apollo capsule didn't even come close to landing on the moon. Apollo eight went to the dark side of the moon the astronauts in that capsule were the first humans to ever see the dark side of the moon
Apollo 9 launch-march3, 1969 splashdown- march 13,1969	This mission was basicly for testing the lunar madual and other moon hardware in the earth's atmosphere.
Apollo10 Launch- May 18,1969 splashdown- May26,1969 Thomas P. Stanford, John W. Young, Eugene A. Cernan	Apollo 10 crew would be the second crew to orbit the moon. They came within 15.6 miles from the lunar surface.
Apollo 11 Launched-July 16,1969 Neil AldenArmstrong,Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.	Americans finally landed on the moon! After years of training lots of saturn5 rockets and many mission and an inspiring speech by JFK we finally made it! The astronauts landed on July 20, 1969, in the sea of tranquility. Following with the quote "One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind'
Apollo 12 Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon Alan L. Bean	During Apollo 12's liftoff a rainstorm had started! Withen 36.5 seconds after liftof the rocket was hit with a bolt of lightning! If not for Bean the mission would have been canceled. thankfully the astronauts still got to the moon.
Apollo13 Launched-April 11,1970 James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, Fred W. haise	This mission was called a 'successful failure'. During their trip to the moon the capsule's air tank exploded, leaving the astronauts with a difficult problem. How to save oxygen, and how to get back to earth. Back on earth NASA had their scientist figure out a way to fix the air tand, meanwhile the astronauts had to climb into the lunar madual, because it contained air. Finaly the scientist figured out a way to fix the air filter, and getting the astronauts home.
Apollo 14
Apollo15
Apollo16
Apollo 17	The last Apollo mission. we are finally at the end of the Apollo missions

You also might have been wondering where Apollo missions 1-7 are. Apollo missions1-7 were unmanned space flights. scientist didn't want to take anymore chances with the live of astronauts.

Why are the Apollo missions important?

Almost everyone knows about the space race between America and Russia. The Apollo missions were the one thing us Americans beat the Russians in if the Russians got to the moon first that would make quite a difference in history.

Apollo 1 mission patch