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Completed crewed lunar exploration program running from 1961 to 1972, with first crewed flight on Apollo 7 (1968) and first lunar landing on Apollo 11 (1969).
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.
Completed crewed lunar exploration program running from 1961 to 1972, with first crewed flight on Apollo 7 (1968) and first lunar landing on Apollo 11 (1969).
Overall mission performance included 32 successes, 2 total failures (Apollo 1 and Apollo 13), and 1 partial failure (Apollo 6).
Apollo returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar samples, advancing knowledge of the Moon’s composition and geological history.
The program established major human spaceflight capabilities for NASA and spurred advances in technologies such as avionics, telecommunications, and computers.
The crewed spacecraft that carried astronauts to and from lunar orbit and supported mission operations using service propulsion and systems.
The spacecraft designed to land astronauts on the Moon and later return them to lunar orbit for rendezvous with the CSM.
NASA’s heavy-lift launch vehicle used to send fully fueled CSM and LM toward the Moon for the lunar landing missions.
A mission approach in which the spacecraft enters lunar orbit, docks the LM, and then uses the LM to land while the CSM remains in orbit.
A follow-on set of missions that used Apollo-derived hardware to support Skylab and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project after the lunar landing era.
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