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One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module
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The unmanned Saturn/Apollo 4 mission was the first all-up test of the three stage Saturn V rocket. It carried a payload of an Apollo Command and Service Module into Earth orbit.
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Verify operation of Lunar Module ascent and descent propulsion systems. Evaluate Lunar Module staging. Evaluate S-IVB instrument unit performance. All mission objects achieved.
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Apollo 7 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla., at 11:02:45 on October 11, 1968 from launch complex 34 on top of a Saturn IB. The spacecraft crew consisted of commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., command module pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham as lunar module pilot. Apollo 7 carried a lunar module pilot, but no lunar module.
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The Apollo 8 mission took 7 days and included 10 orbits around the Moon.
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The primary objective of Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbital engineering test of the first crewed lunar module, or LM. Concurrent prime objectives included an overall checkout of launch vehicle and spacecraft systems, the crew, and procedures.
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This was the second Apollo mission to orbit the Moon, and the first to travel to the Moon with the full Apollo spacecraft, consisting of the Command and Service Module.
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Crewed Landing. The first manned spacecraft landing on the Moon was at 3:17 p.m. on July 20, 1969, when the Apollo 11 Lunar Module.
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Apollo 12 was the second mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 19 November 1969. It was a crew landing.
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Crewed Landing. An explosion of one of the oxygen tanks and resulting damage to other systems resulted in the mission being aborted before the planned lunar landing could take place.
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Apollo 14 was the third mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 5 February 1971 two astronauts (Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and LM pilot Edgar D. Mitchell) landed near Fra Mauro crater on the Moon in the Lunar Module.
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Apollo 15 was the fourth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth.
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Apollo 16 was the fifth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 21 April 1972.
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Apollo 17 was the sixth and last Apollo mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface.
