Apollo Missions

Apollo Missions

NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, headed the Apollo program, which lasted from 1963-1972. These Apollo missions cost approximately $20,443,600,000. Six of these Apollo missions were successful with landing on the moon they include Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17. Two of the missions, Apollo 7 and 9 were used to test the lunar module and command module for future missions. Another two missions are 8 and 10 did test while orbiting the moon and took pictures of the lunar surface. Two failure missions were Apollo 1 and the infamous Apollo 13; we will go more in depth later in why they are the failure missions.
Apollo 7, which launched on October 11 1968, was the first Apollo spaceship to go up that had men on it. These three men were: Walter Schirra, Jr, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham. This mission was one of the Apollo Crewed Earth Orbiting Missions. “The primary objectives of the Earth orbiting mission were to demonstrate Command an...