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 * Category 2 – Apollo **
 * Surveyor || JPL Past ||
 * Apollo PROGRAM || NASA Past ||

JPL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm NASA PAST Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html

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__The Apollo Goals__ Apollo http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/apollologo.gif __Olivia's notes __  1. The moon has evolved and has a similar internal zoning to Earth. 2. The history of the moon's first billion years is preserved, and is likely the same as all terrestrial planets. 3. The moon's youngest rocks are approximately as old as Earth's oldest rocks. Affects from early events that had an impact on both Earth and the moon can now only be observed on the moon. 4. The moon and Earth were made out of the same materials in different proportions. 5. The moon is void of life. No living organisms, fossils or native organic compounds were found. 6. All moon rocks are basalts, anorthosites or breccias. Water was not necessary for their formation. 7. An ocean of magma existed on the moon in its earlier years. Remnants of rocks that floated to the ocean's surface are still found on the surface. 8. Asteroid impacts created basins, later filled by lava from the magma ocean. 9. The moon is asymmetrically formed. It has a thicker crust on the far side and larger mass concentrations on the near side. 10. Rock fragments and dust, called the lunar regolith, cover the moon's surface. This provides a history of the sun's radiation, which is important to studying climate change on Earth.  **__Lizzie's Notes__** The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal. Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data. Apollos 8 and 10 tested various components while orbiting the Moon, and returned photography of the lunar surface. Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon due to a malfunction, but also returned photographs. The six missions that landed on the Moon returned a wealth of scientific data and almost 400 kilograms of lunar samples. Experiments included soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and solar wind experiments. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/Apollo/AS07/a07.htm
 * To establish the technology to meet other national interests in space.
 * To achieve preeminence in space for the United States.
 * To carry out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon.
 * To develop man's capability to work in the lunar environment.
 * Apollo 7-17
 * all went to saturn
 * span 1968-1971

__** Questions: **__ 1.Who's decision was it to go to the moon? John.F.Kennedy