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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 Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong

on December 1968, instead of letting lunar modules slow the program, NASA changed their plans to keep it going. Apollo 8 would go all the way to the moon and orbit without a lunar module, it was the first manned flight of the Saturn V rocket.

Six of the missions, (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17) - went on to land on the moon, studying soil mechanics, meteoroids, seismic, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields and solar wind. Apollos 7 and 9 tested spacecraft in Earth orbit; Apollo 10 orbited the moon as the dress rehearsal for the first landing. An oxygen tank explosion forced Apollo 13 to scrub its landing, and it was known as a "succesful failure"

astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a fire during a launch pad test

Apollo program was a human spaceflight program by NASA from the years 1961 – 1975

During a ceremony for the 35th anniversary of human exploration on the Moon, Administrator Sean O'Keefe named NASA's first astronauts "Ambassadors of Exploration."

in 1969 at 9:32 a.m. EDT, a Saturn V rocket lifted off at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About 12 minutes later, the Apollo 11 crew was in orbit and ready for their journey. On July 20th, with pilot Michael Collins in lunar orbit, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the Lunar Module and walked on the surface of the Moon - an accomplishment that today symbolizes American, in adventure and spirit.

http://www.nasa.gov/news/special/exploration_ambassadors.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html

Surveyors 3 and 7 each carried a soil mechanics surface sampler scoop which dug trenches and was used for soil mechanics tests and Surveyors 5, 6, and 7 had magnets attached to the footpads and an alpha scattering instrument for chemical analysis of the lunar material.