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Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program.Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
Apollo 16 landed in the Descartes Highlands on April 20, 1972. The crew was commanded by John Young, with Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke. Young and Duke spent just under three days on the surface, with a total of over 20 hours EVA. [121] Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo program, landing in the Taurus–Littrow region in
The Apollo 8 crew was also awarded the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Haley Astronautics Award for 1970, [152] and were named Time Magazine Men of the Year in 1968. [153] The Apollo 7, 8, 9, and 10 crews were awarded the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Special Trustees Award for 1969. [154]
Councilman Howard Smith, in his late 20s, was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Guadalcanal as the space race was underway.
March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground. [4] March 17
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
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 9: 3 March 1969 Crewed lunar lander (LEM) flight test in Earth orbit [129] [140] Mariner 7: 27 March 1969 Mars flyby [141] [142] Apollo 10: 18 May 1969 Crewed lunar orbiter [129] [143] [144] Luna 15: 13 July 1969 Second attempted lunar sample return [145] [146] Apollo 11: 16 July 1969 First crewed lunar landing and first successful ...