Saturday, January 30, 2010

All Apollo Moon Missions

All Apollo missions:

Apollo 01 - Tragically, the three astronauts were killed in a capsule fire during an instrument test on the ground. Crew = White, Grissom, and Chafee.


Apollo 02 - No such thing.

Apollo 03 - Sub-orbital, unmanned test flight. It is informally, in retrospect, sometimes called "Apollo 3", but its official designation was "AS-202".

Apollo 04 - First test of the Saturn V booster (unmanned)

Apollo 05 - Test of the Saturn IB booster and lunar module (unmanned).

Apollo 06 - Another test of the Saturn V booster (unmanned).

Apollo 07 - An eleven-day Earth-orbital mission. Crew = Eisele, Schirra, and Cunningham.


Apollo 08 - The first human spaceflight mission to escape from the gravitational field of planet Earth; the first to be captured by and escape from the gravitational field of another celestial body; and the first crewed voyage to return to planet Earth from another celestial body. Crew = Lovell, Anders, and Borman.


Apollo 09 - First manned flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) along with the Lunar Module (LM). Crew = McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart.


Apollo 10 - Was a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. Crew = Cernan, Stafford, and Young.


Apollo 11 - Landed the first humans on the Moon (duh). Sea of Tranquillity region. Crew = Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins (duh).


Apollo 12 - Key objectives were a more precise landing, and to visit the Surveyor 3 probe to remove parts for analysis. Ocean of Storms region. Crew = Conrad, Gordon, and Bean.


Apollo 13 - Aborted mission. Mission would have explored the Fra Mauro formation, or Fra Mauro highlands. Crew = Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise.


Apollo 14 - Completed the mission intended for Apollo 13. Fra Mauro region. Crew = Roosa, Shepard, and Mitchell.


Apollo 15 - The first mission to utilize a Lunar rover. Hadley Rille Region. Crew = Scott, Worden, and Irwin.


Apollo 16 - Mission to Descartes Highlands. Lunar rover used again. Crew = Mattingly, Young, and Duke.


Apollo 17 - Longest manned lunar landing flight; longest total lunar surface extravehicular activities; largest lunar sample return, and longest time in lunar orbit. Taurus-Littrow region. Crew = Schmitt, Cernan, and Evans.


Apollo 18 - Cancelled. Crew = Gordon, Brand, and Schmitt (unofficial).
Apollo 19 - Cancelled. Crew = Haise, Pogue, and Carr (unofficial).
Apollo 20 - Cancelled. Crew = Roosa, Weitz, and Lousma (unofficial).

Shame the Moon program was cancelled. There might have been some exciting things happening. For instance some of the astronauts were strongly suggesting a more ambitious landing in Tycho Crater, or even the farside of the moon. Exploration of the Copernicus crater region was also considered.

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