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[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities.
Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage science fiction horror film [3] written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff. An American - Canadian co-production, its premise is that the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974, but never returned.
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).
Astronomers at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California, had been trying for 12 days to strike the 18 in (460 mm) diameter unit, deployed as part of the mission in order to make precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Moon, before finally striking it with the laser and receiving the reflected beam at 2:00 in the ...
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 ...
The officially unnumbered Apollo spacecraft used in the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project; The fictional Apollo 18 mission in James Michener's 1982 novel Space; The fictional Apollo 18 mission in the 2024 Constellation TV series on Apple TV+; Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon, a 1988 video game by Accolade; Apollo 18, a 1992 album by They Might Be ...
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The prime crew of Apollo 17 was publicly announced on August 13, 1971. [52] The original backup crew for Apollo 17, announced at the same time, was the crew of Apollo 15: David Scott as CDR, Alfred Worden as CMP and James Irwin as LMP; [52] but they were removed because of their roles in the Apollo 15 postal covers incident. [53]