Category:Apollo space programme

Missions

Apollo 1-6

Unmanned tests

Apollo 7

October 1968, 11 days

Walter Shirra, Don Eisele, Walter Cunningham

First Manned flight of the Apollo spaceship.

This mission stayed in Earth orbit and tested most of the systems other than those to do with the LEM (which wasn't onboard).

Apollo 8

December 1968, 147 hours

Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders

Ten orbits of the Moon, Lunar surface photography, first images of the far side of the Moon.

Still no LEM carried.

Apollo 9

March 1969, 241 hours

James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell Schweickart

Lunar Module testing.

Apollo 9 stayed in Earth orbit, but allowed tests of the LEM extraction, docking, astronaut transfer, further LEM tests, separation, redocking and astronaut return.

Apollo 10

May 1969, 192 hours (8 days)

Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan, John Young

Dress rehearsal.

32 lunar orbits. All operations tested apart from an actual Moon landing, with the lunar module twice getting within nine miles of the lunar surface.

Apollo 11-17

Moon missions (Apollo 13 cancelled in flight)

Apollo 11

July 1969, 195 hours (8 days)

Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins

Moon Landing

Apollo 12

November 1969, (10 days)

Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean

ALSEP scientific package deployment, lunar rock collection