The Manned Apollo Missions

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The following information was taken from Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's novel,
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, Simon & Schuster, New York, copyright 1994.

Apollo 7

Crew:
   Wally Schirra, commander
   Don Eisele, command module pilot
   Walt Cunningham, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   October 11, 1968 		Splashdown:

   October 21, 1968
Mission:
   First Earth-orbit test of the Apollo command-service module. No lunar module.

Apollo 8

Crew:
   Frank Borman, commander
   Jim Lovell, command module pilot
   Bill Anders, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   December 21, 1968 		Splashdown:

   December 27, 1968
Mission:
   First manned orbit of the moon. Command-service module only.

Apollo 9

Crew:
   James A. McDivitt, commander
   Dave Scott, command module pilot
   Rusty Schweickart, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   March 3, 1969 		Splashdown:

   March 13, 1969
Mission:
   First Earth-orbit test of both command-service module and lunar module.

Apollo 10

Crew:
   Tom Stafford, commander
   John Young, command module pilot
   Gene Cernan, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   May 18, 1969 		Splashdown:

   May 26, 1969
Mission:
   First Earth-orbit test of both command-service module and lunar module in orbit around the moon. Stafford and Cernan pilot LEM to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface.

Apollo 11

Crew:
   Neil Armstrong, commander
   Michael Collins, command module pilot
   Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   July 16, 1969 		Splashdown:

   July 24, 1969
Mission:
   First lunar landing. Armstrong and Aldrin land in sea of Tranquility and spend 2 hours and 31 minutes walking on the moon. Collins orbits overhead in the command module.

Apollo 12

Crew:
   Pete Conrad, commander
   Dick Gordon, command module pilot
   Alan Bean, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   November 14, 1969 		Splashdown:

   November 24, 1969
Mission:
   Second lunar landing. Conrad and Bean land in Ocean of Storms, collect rocks and retrieve parts from unmanned Surveyor spacecraft, which landed nearby in April 1967.

Apollo 13

Crew:
   Jim Lovell, commander
   Jack Swigert, command module pilot
   Fred Haise, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   April 11, 1970 		Splashdown:

   April 17, 1970
Mission:
   Third attempted lunar landing. At 55 hours, 54 minutes, and 53 seconds into the mission, a cryogenic tank explodes, causing a loss of breathable oxygen and power in the command-service module. Crew abandon ship and survive in the LEM until just a few hours before splashdown, when they return to the command module, jettison the LEM, and reenter the atmosphere.

Apollo 14

Crew:
   Alan Shepard, commander
   Stuart Roosa, command module pilot
   Ed Mitchell, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   January 31, 1971 		Splashdown:

   February 9, 1971
Mission:
   Third lunar landing. Shepard and Mitchell touch down in the Fra Mauro highlands, the intended destination of Apollo 13.

Apollo 15

Crew:
   Dave Scott, commander
   Al Worden, command module pilot
   Jim Irwin, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   July 26, 1971 		Splashdown:

   August 7, 1971
Mission:
   Fourth lunar landing. Scott and Irwin touch down at Hadley Rille in the Apennine Mountains. First test of the four-wheel-drive lunar roving vehicle.

Apollo 16

Crew:
   John Young, commander
   Ken Mattingly, command module pilot
   Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   April 6, 1972 		Splashdown:

   April 27, 1972
Mission:
   Fifth lunar landing. Young and Duke land in the Cayley-Descartes highlands, drive lunar roving vehicle 16.8 miles, and collect 213 pounds of lunar samples.

Apollo 17

Crew:
   Gene Cernan, commander
   Ron Evans, command module pilot
   Harrison Schmitt, lunar module pilot 		Launched:

   December 7, 1972 		Splashdown:

   December 19, 1972
Mission:
   Sixth and last moon landing. Cernan and Schmitt touch down in the Taurus Mountains near the Littrow crater, collect 243 pounds of samples, and lift off from the lunar surface after seventy-five hours and three moonwalks.