Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were recycled to serve as members of the backup crew after returning from Apollo 14, while Pogue and Carr were re-assigned to the Skylab program where they later flew on Skylab 4.

* 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8. 4 nautical miles ( 16 km ) of the moon's surface.

* 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

* April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.

* November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.

* Grissom Hill is 7. 5 km ( 4. 7 mi ) southwest of Columbia Memorial Station on Mars and is one of the Apollo 1 Hills.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

4179 Toutatis / 1989 AC ( ) is an Apollo, Alinda, and Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3: 1 resonance with the planet Jupiter, a 1: 4 resonance with the planet Earth, and frequent close approaches to the terrestrial planets, including Earth.

Saturn V on the launch pad before the launch of Apollo 4

It is notable that tradition as it comes down to us does not record any children arising from a union of gods with Thebe, Plataea, Thespia or Tanagra and only Diodorus ( 4. 72. 1 ) mentions the otherwise unknown sons Phaiax, son of Poseidon by Corcyra, and Syrus sprung from Apollo by Sinope and that this child of Sinope is opposed by a conflicting tradition that Sinope tricked Zeus, Apollo and Halys and remained a virgin.

Regardless, after a brief tryout at the Apollo, Hines officially replaced his existing male singer with Vaughan on April 4, 1943.

Samples obtained of the Fra Mauro formation during Apollo 14 suggest that the impact that formed the Imbrium basin is no older than 4. 25 billion years.

Apollo 4, ( also known as Apollo-Saturn 501 and AS-501 ), was the first test flight for the Saturn V, the launch vehicle which was ultimately used by the U. S. Apollo program to send the first astronauts to the Moon.

Apollo 4 flew without a crew, and was an " all-up test ", meaning all rocket stages and spacecraft would be fully functional on the initial flight, a first for NASA.

On August 26, the complete launch vehicle, now designated Apollo 4, finally rolled out of the VAB-almost six months after the originally scheduled launch date.

The Saturn V of Apollo 4 rising from the launch pad.

This footage is usually mistakenly attributed to the Apollo 11 mission, when it was actually filmed on the flights of Apollo 4 and Apollo 6.

A compilation of original NASA footage shows the jettisoning of the first stage ( S-IC ) and the interstage, filmed from the bottom of the second stage ( S-II ), both from Apollo 4.

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

Other details are given by Pausanias ( 10. 5. 9-13 ) and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( 294 ff .).

The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Service Module on the return trip from the Moon.

* 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.

* 5. 2 ( Apollo ), November 2, 1998 ( Linux 2. 0. 36-0. 7 )

* February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.

February 5: Apollo 14 on Moon.

* August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, Commander of Apollo 11 ( d. 2012 )

* Apollo 5, the first test of the Apollo Lunar Module, which used the AS-204 rocket that was originally intended for Apollo 1

Under Siege 2 opened at # 2 at the box office under Apollo 13 in 2, 150 theaters and made $ 12, 624, 402 with a hefty $ 5, 871 average for the weekend.

* Monomethylhydrazine ( MMH ) + nitrogen tetroxide ( NTO )-smaller engines and reaction control thrusters: Apollo Command Module reaction control system ; Space Shuttle OMS and RCS ; Ariane 5 EPS ; Draco thrusters used by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

The seal for the Eagle 5 is a parody of the Apollo 11 patch.

* EAS Apollo, an EarthForce omega class destroyer starship in the Babylon 5 universe

For example, Apollo 15 used an unusually low parking orbit ( even for Apollo ) of 92. 5 by 91. 5 nautical miles ( 171x169 km ) where there was significant atmospheric drag.

Artemis ; 5 daughters with a nurse ; younger son with a pedagogue ; 3 other sons ; Apollo.

The use of Lunar Orbiters for tracking to evaluate the Manned Space Flight Network tracking stations and Apollo Orbit Determination Program was successful, with three Lunar Orbiters ( 2, 3, and 5 ) being tracked simultaneously from August to October 1967.

An even more extensively modified Hasselblad EL Data Camera ( HDC ), equipped with a special Zeiss 5. 6 / 60 mm Biogon lens and film magazines for 150 – 200 exposures, was used on the Moon surface on the Apollo 11 mission.

Scientists at Argonne pioneered a technique to analyze the moon's surface using alpha radiation, which launched aboard the Surveyor 5 in 1967 and later analyzed lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission.

" The landing area at 0. 8 ° N, 23. 5 ° E has been designated Statio Tranquillitatis after Armstrong's name for it, and three small craters to the north of the base have been named Aldrin, Collins, and Armstrong in honor of the Apollo 11 crew.

* In 2005, Tori Amos released a live album from her 2005 concert at the Apollo as part of the Official Bootlegs.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

Mueller accepted, on the condition that he have a say in NASA reorganization necessary to effectively administer Apollo.

Phillips ' superior officer Bernard Schriever agreed to loan Phillips to NASA, along with a staff of officers under him, on the condition that Phillips be made Apollo Program Director.

One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

* NASA Apollo 16 press kit-6 April 1972

* ( Part 1 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* ( Part 2 ) NASA film on the Apollo 16 mission from the Internet Archive

* Apollo by the numbers: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff ( NASA )

* Apollo 17 Characteristics-SP-4012 NASA historical data book

* NASA Apollo 17 press kit-26 November 1972

From the 1950s onward, he worked as an advisor to NASA, where one of his duties included briefing the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon.

The Mansfield Amendment, the end of the Vietnam War, and the end of the Apollo program reduced ARC's funding from ARPA and NASA.

NASA planners invented the term extra-vehicular activity in the early 1960s for the Apollo program to land men on the Moon, because the astronauts would leave the spacecraft to collect lunar material samples and deploy scientific experiments.

Armstrong's FM system was used for communications between NASA and the Apollo program astronauts.

UTC Power continues to be the sole supplier of fuel cells to NASA for use in space vehicles, having supplied fuel cells for the Apollo missions, and the Space Shuttle program, and is developing fuel cells for automobiles, buses, and cell phone towers.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

( NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew.

An earlier project which received some significant planning by NASA included a manned fly-by of Venus in the Manned Venus Flyby mission, but was cancelled when the Apollo Applications Program was terminated due to NASA budget cuts in the late 1960s.

* 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces Lunar Orbit Rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

* 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle.

During this time period NASA used joysticks as control devices as part of the Apollo missions.

In early 1963, NASA selected MSFC for studies in an Apollo Logistics Support System ( ALSS ).