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Apollo
Program

The Apollo Program began with a tragedy, when fire swept through a Block One Apollo spacecraft on January 27, 1967 killing Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee during a "plugs out" test on the pad. The subsequent redesign produced a safer and superior spacecraft for the 45 astronauts that flew in them from Apollo 7 in October of 1968 to Apollo-Soyuz in July of 1975. In all, twelve men, starting with Neil Armstrong and ending with Eugene Cernan, walked on the moon before Apollo was completed. Below is a list of each Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz mission.

Apollo Test Flights and missions
Mission	Astronauts	Launch Landing1 Landing2	Highlights
Apollo 7	Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Donn F. Eisele Walter Cunningham	10/11/1968 10/22/1968	First manned Apollo mission to fly. Made 163 orbits of earth.
Apollo 8	Frank Borman James A. Lovell, Jr. William A. Anders	12/21/1968 12/27/1968	First occupied launch of Saturn V. Looped around moon on Christmas Eve.
Apollo 9	James A. McDivitt David R. Scott Russell R. Schweikart	3/03/1969 3/13/1969	First manned test of Lunar Module. Made 151 orbits of Earth.
Apollo 10	Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young Eugene A. Cernan	5/18/1969 5/26/1969	Orbited moon. Lunar Module dropped to within 9 miles of Lunar surface.
Apollo 11	Neil A. Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin	7/16/1969 7/20/1969 7/24/1969	First Lunar landing. Landed on moon with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining. Took core samples. Planted American flag.
Apollo 12	Charles "Pete" Conrad Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Alan L. Bean	11/14/1969 11/19/1969 11/24/1969	Struck by lightning during launch. Landed near, and returned parts of, old Surveyor 3 probe.
Apollo 13	James A. Lovell, Jr. Fred W. Haise, Jr. John L. Sweigert. Jr.	4/11/1970 4/17/1970	OK, Houston, we've had a problem here. O₂ tank blew up; Used LM as a lifeboat which got them safely around moon and home.
Apollo 14	Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Edgar D. Mitchell Stuart A. Roosa	1/31/1971 2/03/1971 2/09/1971	Extensive scientific experiments. Astronauts almost got lost when lunar landscape became disorienting.
Apollo 15	David R. Scott James B. Irwin Alfred M. Worden	7/26/1971 7/30/1971 8/07/1971	First use of Lunar Rover. Astronauts rode over 27 kilometers. First Apollo space walk.
Apollo 16	John W. Young Thomas K. Mattingly II Charles M. Duke, Jr.	4/16/1972 4/20/1972 4/27/1972	Malfunction almost scrubbed landing. Stayed 3 days, got Lunar Rover up to almost 18 kph.
Apollo 17	Eugene A. Cernan Ronald E. Evans Harrison H. Schmitt	12/07/1972 12/11/1972 12/19/1972	Last men on the moon (so far).
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Skylab missions
Mission	Astronauts	Launch Landing	Duration	Highlights
Skylab I	Charles "Pete" Conrad Paul J. Weitz Joseph P. Kerwin	5/25/1973 6/22/1973	28 days 0 hours 50 minutes	Installed solar shield "parasol". Released solar array wing on EVA. Conducted solar astronomy and Earth resources experiments.
Skylab II	Alan L. Bean Jack R. Lousma Owen K. Garriott	7/28/1973 9/25/1973	59 days 11 hours 9 minutes	Performed major inflight maintenance. Conducted extensive scientific and medical experiments.
Skylab III	Gerald P. Carr William R. Pogue Edward G. Gibson	11/16/1973 02/08/1974	84 days 1 hour 17 minutes	Observed and photographed comet Kohoutek among other numerous experiments.

Apollo-Soyuz (ASTP)
Mission	Astronauts/Cosmonauts	Launch Landing	Orbits	Duration
Apollo 18	Thomas P. Stafford Vance D. Brand Donald K. "Deke" Slayton	7/15/1975 7/24/1975	136	9 days 1 hour 30 minutes
Soyuz 19	Alexei Leonov Valeri Kubasov	7/15/1975 7/21/1975	96	5 days 23 hours 31 minutes

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