Apollo Program Learning Path

Program overview and key outcomes

The Apollo program (1961–1972) was NASA’s crewed lunar exploration effort that achieved the first human Moon landing in 1969. It was conceived as a successor to Project Mercury, accelerated under President John F. Kennedy’s national goal to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth, and was executed using the Saturn rocket family and two main crewed spacecraft: the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Apollo Lunar Module (LM). The program’s key milestones included Apollo 7 as the first crewed flight, Apollo 11 as the first crewed landing on the Moon, and Apollo 17 as the final mission in 1972.

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Program timeline and mission counts

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