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In the NASA report "Scientific Rationale Summaries for Apollo Candidate Lunar Exploration Landing Sites" from March 11, 1970, Apollo 18 is targeted for Copernicus, and Apollo 19 is assigned Hadley rille (the eventual landing site of Apollo 15). The Apollo 20 mission had been canceled two months before, but the report still suggested its target ...
Apollo 6, the second test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, was intended to send a command and service module (CSM) plus a Lunar Test Article (LTA), a simulated lunar module (LM) with mounted structural vibration sensors, into a trans-lunar trajectory, with the boost from orbit to trans-lunar velocity powered by the Saturn V's third stage, the S-IVB.
2 Mission cancellations (developmental) 3 References. 4 See also. ... [1] Lockheed Martin X-33 - 2001; HL-20 Personnel Launch System - 1993 [2] Mission cancellations ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Articles related to the additional Apollo program missions that were planned, but canceled. Pages in category "Canceled Apollo missions" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Canceled Apollo missions (9 P) C. Cancelled Space Shuttle missions (9 P) Cancelled space stations (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Cancelled space missions"
By Eduardo Baptista. BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Chang'e-6 probe transferred samples it collected from the moon's far side to a spacecraft in lunar orbit on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua reported.