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* 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
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1969 and Apollo
The first manned flight of Apollo was in 1968 and it succeeded in landing the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969 through 1972.
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.
Mueller agreed, and Phillips managed Apollo from January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969, after which he returned to Air Force duty.
The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting Earth ( such as the International Space Station ), but also has applied to lunar surface exploration ( commonly known as moonwalks ) performed by six pairs of American astronauts in the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.
The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
* 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin " Buzz " Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission ( July 20 in North America ).
* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon ; these were the Bench Crater meteorite ( Apollo 12, 1969 ) and the Hadley Rille meteorite ( Apollo 15, 1971 ).
Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in July 1969.
* 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
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