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spaceflight programme
Close ✕Apollo Program
The United States crewed lunar programme run by NASA, committed by President Kennedy before a joint session of Congress on 25 May 1961 and flown from 1967 to 1972.
No recorded place · 1961–1972
Lunar programme
AgencyNASA
Span1961–1972
Missions8 · 6 with a surface position
Samples6 returned material
GoalLand a crew on the Moon and return them safely to Earth.
Connections
- is forced redesign of of Apollo 1 (AS-204) — The fire stopped Apollo flights for twenty months and forced a command module redesign — quick-release hatch, non-flammable materials, protected wiring — without which the landings would not have been attempted on schedule.
- is illustrates constraint of of Tranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site) — Its near-equatorial position at 0.67° N reflects Apollo's trajectory constraints: an equatorial parking orbit, a free-return path and a rendezvous plane that had to match the orbiting command module all penalised high-latitude sites.
- is concluded of Apollo 17 — Apollo 17 was the sixth and final landing; Cernan's departure on 14 December 1972 ended crewed lunar surface operations for more than five decades.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates