Apollo ? ...........?

Question

What was the mission of :
Apollo 1
Apollo 7
Apollo 8
Apollo 9
Apollo 10
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 15, 16 and 17

Answer 1

Refer NASA website

Answer 2

If you are really interested in learning about the Apollo missions, I suggest that you buy/rent the HBO "From the Earth to the Moon" series directed by Tom Hanks. They are excellent and are filmed using a theatrical style rather than a documentary. They are very similar to the Apollo 13 movie. If you just want a quick answer for an assignment, well then you already got that in the previous answers.

Answer 3

APOLLO 1 ended in disaster - fire during test (three astronauts were killed). APOLLO 7 was command module test - Wally Schirra commanded. APOLLO 8 was orbit of moon; no landing. APOLLO 9 was lunar module (moon landing vehicle) test. APOLLO 11 was first moon landing. APOLLO 12 was second moon landing. APOLLO 13 was aborted moon landing due to spacecraft malfunction. APOLLO 14 was moon landing #3 commanded by first American in space, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. APOLLO 15 was most difficult moon landing (mountain terrain) with Commander David R. Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin. APOLLO 16 was 5th moon landing commanded by John W. Young. APOLLO 17 was last moon landing commanded by Eugene A. Cernan.

Answer 4

Apollo 1 was to be the first manned Apollo flight. It was scheduled to be an Earth orbit flight lasting several days and providing a thorough shakedown of the command and service modules. It used what was known as a 'Block I' spacecraft, which lacked several features that the later Block II spacecraft would use, mostly relating to docking with, and transfer to, the lunar module. On January 27th 1967 during a test on the launchpad a fire swept through the command module, killing the three astronauts who were to fly. They were Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

Apollo 7 was the first manned flight. The Block I spacecraft were abandoned and the Block II, incorporating several redesigns to make it safer so a repeat of Apollo 1 could be avoided, carried Wally Schirra, Walt Cunningham and Don Eisele into Earth orbit to carry out the mission profile planned for Apollo 1. It was a highly successful mission lasting ten days.

Apollo 8 was supposed to be an Earth orbit test of the CSm with the LM, but the LM was delayed. On top of that the Russians had sent Zond 5 round the Moon with live specimens including plants, mice and turtles, in what was believed to be a prelude to a manned flight. Apollo 8 was changed and the CSM was sent into lunar orbit. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to see the Moon up close. The ship spent a day in lunar orbit, then returned to Earth.

Apollo 9 took Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott and Rusty Schweickart into Earth orbit to test the CSM and LM combination. The LM disconnected from the CSM and flew up to 100 miles from it before staging and returning the crew in the ascent stage to the CSM for re-entry. The PLSS backpack that would allow future crews to work on the lunar surface was also tested on this flight.

Apollo 10 took the CSM and LM to lunar orbit. Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan took the LM to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface in a practice run at the landing. They could not land because the LM was an early model and was too heavy to be sure of getting back to lunar orbit. Afterwards they returned to rejoin John Young in the command module and returned to Earth.

Apollo 11 was the first lunar landing. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin repeated the approach run of Apollo 10, but this time took the LM all the way to the surface, landing in the Sea Of Tranquility. They then spent just under three hours outside the LM, collecting rocks and deploying surface experiment packages. Mike Collins orbited in the CSM.

Apollo 12 was to land in a different area (known as the Ocean Of Storms) and demonstrate pinpoint landing capability. Their goal was to land near enough to the Surveyor 3 probe for Pete Conrad and Alan Bean to be able to walk to it and take samples for return to Earth. Again they collected rock and soil, as well as deploying surface experiments before they lifted off and rejoined Dick Gordon in the orbiting CSM.

Apollo 13 was to land in the lunar highlands in an area called Fra Mauro. They were to extend the stay on the lunar surface and collect more samples. Unfortunately an oxygen tank exploded on the way out, so they never made the landing.

Apollo 14 did what Apollo 13 was supposed to do, landing in Fra Mauro and sampling a different lunar terrain than the previous two landings had sampled.

Apollo 15, 16 and 17 were the real science expeditions, using an electronic roving vehicle to allow the astronauts to range much further afield and bring back much more geological samples. They each spent three days on the lunar surface, making three EVAs each and covering a wide area. Apollo 15 landed near Hadley Rille, Apollo 16 in the Descrates region, and Apollo 17 in the Taurus Littrow valley. All three were hoping to find samples of the original lunar crust and evidence of volcanic activity. Apollo 15 found the former, none of them found the latter, leading to the conclusion that the Moon was geologically dead.

In addition to these flights there was Apollo 4 and 6 (unmanned tests of the Saturn V) and Apollo 5 (an unmanned LM test flight), as well as numerous unmanned test flights earlier in the program. There were no Apollo 2 and Apollo 3 missions.

Answer 5

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