apollo missions

apollo 8

Dec 21, 1968

apollo 8 mission was the first manned voyage to the moon. carried commander borman and pilots lovell and anders. they orbited the moon but did not land on it

apollo missions

Period: Dec 21, 1968 to Dec 7, 1972

apollo 11

Jul 16, 1969

apollo 11 to carry men who will walk on the moon launches from kenedy space center in florida. carrying Buzz aldrin, neil armstrong, and the somewhat forgotten michel collins

apollo 12

Nov 14, 1969

the plan for appolo 12 was to land in the sea of storms area on the moon

apollo 13

Apr 11, 1970

apollo 13 was supposed to land on the moon but a milefunction forced the ship to return to earth carrying lovell, swigert and haise

apollo 14

Jan 31, 1971

third mission to achive lunar landing game plan was the same as apollo 13 but without the disaster

apollo 15

Jul 26, 1971

was first of "J" missions with more scientific studies conducted and better equipment used

apollo 16

Apr 16, 1972

second of J missions was equiped with rover modual carrying astronauts across 27 kilometers of the moon

apollo 17

Dec 7, 1972

last of the apollo missions was a "j" mission, used to collect scientific samples of young rock and old rock on the moon.