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Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970. Because of Apollo 13's free-return trajectory, Lovell, Swigert and Haise flew higher above the Moon's 180° meridian (opposite Earth) than anyone else has flown (254 km/158 mi).
One important rock found during the Apollo Program is dubbed the Genesis Rock, retrieved by astronauts David Scott and James Irwin during the Apollo 15 mission. [131] This anorthosite rock is composed almost exclusively of the calcium-rich feldspar mineral anorthite , and is believed to be representative of the highland crust. [ 132 ]
Category for NASA astronauts who took part in the successful or non-successful Apollo missions (1967-1972) See also: Category:People who have walked on the Moon (currently exclusive to the Apollo program)
The Astronaut's Son (2018), novel Apollo 18: 1974 (September – November) Israeli astronaut Stein, assigned to command Apollo 18, dies of apparent heart attack two days before scheduled launch. Vietnam veteran Lunden, previously assigned to command the mission, reclaims his spot after Stein's death. Apollo 18 launches on November 18, 1974. [166]
The astronauts had personal preference kits (PPKs), small bags containing personal items of significance they wanted to take with them on the mission. [79] Five 0.5-pound (0.23 kg) PPKs were carried on Apollo 11: three (one for each astronaut) were stowed on Columbia before launch, and two on Eagle. [80]
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]
A chart showing U.S. astronaut assignments during the 1960s through the Apollo era. List of human spaceflight programs; List of human spaceflights; List of human spaceflights, 1971–1980; List of human spaceflights, 1981–1990; List of human spaceflights, 1991–2000; List of human spaceflights, 2001–2010; List of human spaceflights, 2011 ...
NASA Astronaut Group 7 was a group of seven astronauts accepted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 14, 1969. It was the last group to be selected during the Project Apollo era, and the first since the Mercury Seven in which all members were active-duty military personnel, and all made flights into space.