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The entire mission was to last about 10 hours. [1] [2] [3] The mission was intended to test the Saturn V launch vehicle's ability to send the entire Apollo spacecraft to the Moon—in particular, to test the stresses on the LM and the vibration modes of the entire Saturn V with near-full loads. [4]
The crew selected on March 21, 1966, for AS-204 consisted of Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who named their mission Apollo 1. AS-205 was to be named Apollo 2, and AS-207/208 would be Apollo 3. [3] The AS-205 crew were Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. However, AS-205 was later ...
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]
2 Mission cancellations (developmental) 3 References. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of NASA cancellations. ... [2] Mission cancellations (developmental)
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"
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 ]
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NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969. [3] Wernher von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller space station (after his large one was not built) to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early ...