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Apollo Program By: Courtney McGrath

why did we want to reach the moon?  Compete with the Soviet Union  Space Race vs.

Apollo 1 Planned - February 21, 1967 Test -January 27, 1967 Ed White, Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee All died after 18 sec.

Apollo 2 July 21, 1966 obtain flight information under orbital conditions.

Apollo 3 August 25, 1966 evaluate: spacecraft separations, detection systems, heat shield, etc.

Apollo 4 -November 9, Unmanned -first Saturn V launch

Apollo 5 January 22, 1968 Throttle back rocket engine “Fire in the Hole”

Apollo 6 April 4, 1968 Last unmanned test flight A lot of malfunctions

Apollo 8  First human space lift to leave Earth.  First to be capture in another gravitational pull.

Apollo 9 March 3 rd, 1969 Tested landing aspects for the moon. 3 rd manned ship

Apollo 10 o Dry run for Apollo 11 o Practice moon landings without doing it.

Apollo 11 first American space ship to land on the moon! *July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong-first to walk on moon!

planned to land on the moon oxygen tank blew up did not land

Apollo 14 January 31, 1971 –launch date Commander Alan Shepard hit golf balls Landed on Fra Mauro

Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle Hadley/Apennine Region

Apollo 16  First on highlands  Ultraviolet camera

Apollo 17! Last trip that sent man to the moon! -->Harrison Schmitt Greatest distance with LRV