The Apollo Missions
By: Kelsey Tran 7th Pd
What are the Apollo Missions?
*3 astronauts participated in each mission
* There are 12 missions
* Apollo suffered 2 disasters
* The Apollo missions lasted from 1961 through 1974
Transportation?
- The rocket is called Saturn IB for Earth orbiting flights
- The other rocket is called the Saturn V for Lunar flight
- Saturn V had to produce enough power to launch 3 astronauts on a 250,000 mile journey to the moon
Apollo 1
- Apollo 1 is where the 1st disaster happened
- A fire started during a launch pad test which took the lives of all 3 astronauts
- The astronauts on Apollo 1 were Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee
Apollo 11
- Held the first ever landing on the moon
- They landed on July 20, 1969
- Neil Armstrong along with Buzz Aldrin were the first footsteps on the moon
- This area is called "the sea of tranquility"
- The 3rd Apollo 11 astronaut was aboard the Saturn V orbiting the Command Module
Apollo 13
- This is where the "Houston, we have a problem...." saying came from
- Approximately 56 hours after launch, an on-board explosion happened
- This forced them to circle the moon without landing, but they still made it back safely
- The mission for Apollo 13 was assigned to Apollo 14
- The astronauts were James A. Lovell Jr., Fred W. Haise Jr., and John L. Swigert Jr.
Apollo 17
- This is the last mission of the Apollo missions
- This last flight was not a mission to the moon
- They had just planned to perform an orbital rendezvous between a Soviet Soyuz Capsule, & a U.S Apollo Capsule
- Which came out to be a success like many others
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