1. Apollo 13
Men in space!

2. Manned space travel
In 1961, John Kennedy had set a goal for the US and NASA to get a man on the moon within the decade.
We saw the very beginning of that effort in Hidden Figures, as Katherine Goble Johnson helps NASA plot the reentry for John Glenn’s Mercury-Atlas 6 flight reenter the Earth’s atmosphere after three orbits around the earth.
It was just under five hours, and the first US astronaut in space.

3. Different steps in the voyage to space
Project Mercury series of flights were from at first unmanned, with plants and animals, then one man flights that were experimenting and gaining knowledge
Project Gemini upped the game with pilot and ground control flight maneuvers with spacecraft.
Project Apollo was the portion of NASA’s work that aimed to get on the moon.

4. The Apollo program
Designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.
Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal.
Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data.
Apollos 8 and 10 tested various components while orbiting the Moon, and returned photography of the lunar surface.
Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon due to a malfunction, but also returned photographs.

5. The failure January 1967- Apollo 1
The worst failure was Apollo 1, which was supposed to be a manned Earth orbiting mission.
All of the astronauts were killed when a fire broke out in a launch pad test.
The escape hatch door was too hard to open and all the men died of smoke inhalation.
There was a huge investigation and a lot of changes were made.
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee

6. Apollo 7
The next flight, after three unmanned tests to make sure they had fixed everything, was Apollo 7 in October 1968.
It was a ten day voyage, they orbited the Earth, and did live transmissions on the evening news.
Wally Schirra, Don Eisele and Walter Cunningham all got sick, as Wally Schirra had apparently picked up a cold and passed it to the other men. They were all miserable because their ears wouldn’t drain in the low gravity and they got crabby with each other and on TV.

7. Apollo 11 The first men on the Moon!
All three men had been on other voyages, docking craft, going out of the craft into space, firing the rockets.
There was a command module, Columbia, that the men took a lunar module from to the moon for most of a day.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin

8. The Eagle and Columbia

9. Apollo 11 Lands safely!

10. Apollo 12- November 1969 Also landed on the Moon.
Closer to Sea of Tranquility which was target missed by 11.
Successful, took many samples.
Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, Al Bean