- Apollo – Mythopedia
Apollo was a powerful Greek god and one of the Twelve Olympians He served as the divine patron of prophecy, healing, art, and culture, as well as the embodiment of masculine beauty Apollo belonged to the second generation of Olympians, along with his twin sister Artemis, goddess of the wild and hunting
- Apollo 13 - National Air and Space Museum
When Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970 it was intended to be the third Apollo mission to land on the Moon Unfortunately, an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks seriously damaged the spacecraft during flight and the crew were forced to fly by the Moon, using its gravity to send the spacecraft back to Earth without carrying out a lunar
- Apollo 8 - National Air and Space Museum
Apollo 8's success paved the way for Apollo 11, the first human landing on the Moon All three astronauts shared stories about their careers and the Apollo 8 mission in this program, recorded on November 13, 2008, at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC This event is made possible by the generous support of The Boeing Company
- Ten Scientific Discoveries from the Apollo Missions
The Apollo Program was a monumental moment in human history – landing the first human beings on the surface of the Moon However, the Apollo missions contributed more than putting humans on the Moon, it also produced a lot of new scientific data and discoveries which expanded our knowledge of both the Moon itself and our Solar System
- Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia - National Air and Space Museum
The Apollo 11 Command Module, "Columbia," was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first crewed lunar landing mission in July 1969 On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn V rocket
- Apollo 12 - National Air and Space Museum
Apollo 12 carried out a precision landing to successfully land on the Moon at a pinpointed destination Landing within walking distance of the Surveyor III spacecraft , astronauts intended to bring back instruments from the Surveyor III, such as its camera, to examine the effects of long-term exposure to the lunar environment
- Apollo 1 - National Air and Space Museum
In the spring of 1967, NASA's Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr George E Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1, and that the first Saturn V launch, scheduled for November 1967, would be known as Apollo 4
- Apollo 16 - National Air and Space Museum
Apollo 16 astronauts explored the Descartes region, the first opportunity to explore the lunar highlands The site was some 2,250 meters (7,400 feet) higher than the Apollo 11 site Preliminary geological analysis of the highlands indicates that the Moon's crust underwent modification early in its history
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