Apollo Program - Mission Summary

Mission Summary

Designation Date Crew Description
AS-201 Feb. 26, 1966 None First flight of Saturn IB and Block I CSM; suborbital to Atlantic ocean; qualified heat shield to orbital reentry speed
AS-203 July 5, 1966 None No spacecraft; observations of liquid hydrogen fuel behavior in orbit, to support design of S-IVB restart capability
AS-202 Aug. 25, 1966 None Suborbital flight of CSM to Pacific ocean.
Apollo 4 Nov. 9, 1967 None First flight of Saturn V; Earth orbital CSM flight; demonstrated S-IVB restart; qualified CM heat shield to lunar reentry speed
Apollo 5 Jan. 22-23, 1968 None First Earth orbital flight of LM, launched on Saturn IB; demonstrated ascent and descent propulsion; man-rated the LM
Apollo 6 April 4, 1968 None Attempted demonstration of trans-lunar injection and direct-return abort with SM engine; three engine failures prevented S-IVB restart. Flight controllers used SM engine to repeat Apollo 4's flight profile. Man-rated the Saturn V.
Apollo 7 Oct. 11-22, 1968 Wally Schirra
Walt Cunningham
Donn Eisele
Earth orbital demonstration of Block II CSM, launched on Saturn IB. First live television publicly broadcast from a manned mission
Apollo 8 Dec. 21-27, 1968 Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
First manned flight to Moon; CSM made 10 lunar orbits in 20 hours.
Apollo 9 Mar, 3-13, 1969 James McDivitt
David Scott
Russell Schweickart
Earth orbital demonstration of CSM, LM, and Portable Life Support System used on the lunar surface
Apollo 10 May 18–26, 1969 Thomas Stafford
John Young
Eugene Cernan
Dress rehearsal for first lunar landing; flew LM down to 50,000 feet (15 km) from lunar surface
Apollo 11 July 16–24, 1969 Neil Armstrong
Michael Collins
Buzz Aldrin
First manned landing, in Sea of Tranquility. Surface EVA time: 2:31 hr. Samples returned: 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg)
Apollo 12 Nov. 14-24, 1969 C. Peter Conrad
Richard Gordon
Alan Bean
Second landing, in Ocean of Storms near Surveyor 3 . Surface EVA time: 7:45 hr. Samples returned: 75.7 pounds (34.3 kg)
Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970 James Lovell
Jack Swigert
Fred Haise
Third landing attempt aborted near the Moon, due to SM failure. Crew used LM as "life boat" to return to Earth.
Apollo 14 Jan 31-Feb. 9, 1971 Alan Shephard
Stuart Roosa
Edgar Mitchell
Third landing, in Fra Mauro. Surface EVA time: 9:22 hr. Samples returned: 93.2 pounds (42.3 kg).
Apollo 15 July 26-Aug. 7, 1971 David Scott
Alfred Worden
James Irwin
First Extended LM and rover, landed in Hadley-Apennine. Surface EVA time:18:34 hr. Samples returned: 170.4 pounds (77.3 kg).
Apollo 16 April 16–27, 1972 John Young
T. Kenneth Mattingly
Charles Duke
Landed in Plain of Descartes. Surface EVA time: 20:14 hr. Samples returned: 211.0 pounds (95.7 kg).
Apollo 17 Dec. 7-17, 1972 Eugene Cernan
Ronald Evans
Harrison Schmitt
Landed in Taurus-Littrow. First geologist on the Moon. Surface EVA time: 22:04 hr. Samples returned: 243.6 pounds (110.5 kg).

Source for surface times and sample amounts: NASA: Apollo by the Numbers, Extravehicular Activity

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