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| Apollo 7 was the first manned flight of the Apollo spacecraft. Apollo 1 was scheduled as the first manned Apollo flight, but fire broke out during a routine test on the pad, claiming the lives of astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. Apollo 7 was launched on a Saturn 1B rocket and performed earth orbit operations before splashing down in the Atlantic. |
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| Man's first trip to the moon. For the first time in human history, man journeyed beyond the earth. Apollo 8 was the first manned launch using the mighty Saturn V booster and on Christmas Eve, Apollo 8 looped around the moon. |
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| Apollo 9 orbited the earth 151 times testing the docking and performance of the Lunar Module (LM). This was the first test in space of the LM and set the stage for testing in lunar orbit. |
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| The dramatic dress rehersal, Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit and separated the LM (nicknamed Snoopy) from the Command Module (nicknamed Charlie Brown) and decended to within 9 miles of the lunar surface. |
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| "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", Neil Armstrong's first words as he became the first human in history to step onto the surface of another celestrial body. At 4:17 pm EDT, the Lunar Module (Eagle) became the first manned spacecraft to land on the surface of the moon. At 10:56 pm EDT, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot upon the moon. The landing site was Mare Tranquilitatis (Sea of Tranquility). Armstrong and Aldrin spent 2.53 hours outside on the lunar surface and returned 21.7 kg of samples to earth. |
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First Man
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US Flag on
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'Eagle' returns
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Continue
with the Apollo missions, see a map of where they landed and read about
what we learned about the moon by clicking on the link to page 2 below.
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