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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)
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.
Apollo 9: Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit. 34 Thomas P. Stafford (3) John Young (3) Eugene Cernan (2) 18 May 1969 Apollo 10: 26 May 1969 Apollo 10: Tested Lunar Module in low lunar orbit. 35 Neil Armstrong (2) Michael Collins (2) Buzz Aldrin (2) 16 July 1969 Apollo 11: Moon: 24 July 1969 Apollo 11: First lunar landing. 36 Georgy Shonin ...
After the crew of Apollo 10 named their spacecraft Charlie Brown and Snoopy, assistant manager for public affairs Julian Scheer wrote to George Low, the Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office at the MSC, to suggest the Apollo 11 crew be less flippant in naming their craft.
An alphabetical list of major mission types was proposed by Owen Maynard in September 1967. [11] [12] Two "A-type" missions performed uncrewed tests of the CSM and the Saturn V, and one B-type mission performed an uncrewed test of the LM. The C-type mission, the first crewed flight of the CSM in Earth orbit, was performed by Apollo 7.
Those were the words from former Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell, who was just one of millions of people around the globe who watched in awe as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
1 By name. 2 By nationality. ... American astronauts List of Apollo astronauts; ... NASA Astronaut Group 11; NASA Astronaut Group 12;
Before astronaut school, there was college. astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon.