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Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970: Air Force: 8 Fred Haise (NASA Astronaut Group 5) November 14, 1933 (age 91) 36: Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970: Marines, Air Force: Intended to land; later trained to land and slated to command Apollo 19 (canceled); [8] flew the Space Shuttle on approach / landing tests. 9 Stuart Roosa (NASA Astronaut Group 5)
None of the Apollo 17 astronauts flew in space again. [148] Cernan retired from NASA and the Navy in 1976. He died in 2017. [149] Evans retired from the Navy in 1976 and from NASA in 1977, entering the private sector. He died in 1990. [150] Schmitt resigned from NASA in 1975 prior to his successful run for a United States Senate seat from New ...
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]
In December 1972, as one of the crew on board Apollo 17, Schmitt became the first member of NASA's first scientist-astronaut group to fly in space. As Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions, he also became the twelfth and second-youngest person to set foot on the Moon and the second-to-last person to step off of the Moon (he boarded the ...
When Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt scooped up rocks and dust from the lunar surface in 1972, they unknowingly brought back the answer to one of the biggest questions ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
China announced the selection of 18 new astronauts (17 men, 1 woman), whose names were not revealed, in the following categories: 7 spacecraft pilots: Li Guangsu, Song Lingdong, Tang Shengjie 7 flight engineers: Jiang Xinlin, Li Cong, Wang Haoze, Zhu Yangzhu 4 mission payload specialists: Gui Haichao
The Apollo 17 lunar lander module left behind by US astronauts on the moon’s surface could be causing moonquakes, or small tremors, a new study revealed.