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apollo 8
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 -
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apollo missions
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apollo 11
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
the plan for appolo 12 was to land in the sea of storms area on the moon -
apollo 13
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
third mission to achive lunar landing game plan was the same as apollo 13 but without the disaster -
apollo 15
was first of "J" missions with more scientific studies conducted and better equipment used -
apollo 16
second of J missions was equiped with rover modual carrying astronauts across 27 kilometers of the moon -
apollo 17
last of the apollo missions was a "j" mission, used to collect scientific samples of young rock and old rock on the moon.
