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Project Apollo
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Apollo
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Mission of Apollo To establish the technology to meet other national interests in space To achieve preeminence in space for the United States To carry out a program of scientific ex- ploration of the Moon To develop man's capability to work in the lunar environment
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Apollo Stack Command Module - crews’ quarters and flight control Service Module - propulsion and spacecraft support systems Lunar Module - lunar landing, support, and ascent Saturn V 3-stage rocket
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Command and Service Module
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Command & Service Module
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Lunar Module & Lunar Rover
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Saturn V
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Grissom, White, and Chaffee
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Apollo Summary The Apollo program was 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. Lunar surface experiments included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields and solar wind experiments. Apollo 17 included the first professional scientist (Geologist), Harrison Schmitt
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Apollo Moon Landings Six of the missions -- Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 -- achieved this goal. Lunar surface experiments included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields and solar wind experiments.
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Apollo Summary Earth OrbitApollo 7 Apollo 9Apollo 7 Apollo 9 Lunar OrbitApollo 8 Apollo 10Apollo 8Apollo 10 Lunar SwingbyApollo 13Apollo 13 Lunar LandingApollo 11 Apollo 12 Apollo 14 Apollo 15 Apollo 16 Apollo 17Apollo 11 Apollo 12 Apollo 14 Apollo 15 Apollo 16 Apollo 17
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Skylab America's first experimental space station. Designed for long duration mission Program objectives were twofold: To prove that humans could live and work in space for extended periods, and to expand our knowledge of solar astronomy Three three-man crews occupied the Skylab workshop for a total of 171 days, 13 hours. It was the site of nearly 300 scientific and technical experiments
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Skylab
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Apollo-Soyuz was the first international manned spaceflight. It was designed to: test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft to open the way for international space rescue as well as future joint manned flights
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Apollo Budget After the last lunar landing, total funding for the Apollo program was about $19,408,134,000. The budget allocation was 34 percent of the NASA budget.
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