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January 27, 1967:

Apollo 1 accident

A fire kills the mission’s

three astronauts during

a preflight test at Cape

Canaveral. Crew: Virgil

“Gus” Grissom, Edward

White and Roger Chaffee.

November 9,
1967: Apollo 4
Apollo/Saturn
uncrewed Earth-
orbiting mission.
Tests all aspects of
the Saturn V launch
vehicle.

January 22,

1968: Apollo 5

Apollo/Saturn

uncrewed Earth-

orbiting mission.

First test flight

of the lunar

module.

October 11, 1968: Apollo 7

Apollo Earth-orbiting mission.

First crewed Apollo spacecraft

flight. Crew: Walter Schirra Jr.,

Donn Eisele and Walter

Cunningham.

December 21,

1968: Apollo 8

Apollo lunar

mission. First

crewed mission

to orbit the

moon. Crew:

Frank Borman,

Jim Lovell and

William Anders.

March 3, 1969: Apollo 9

Apollo crewed Earth-orbiting mission.

First crewed flight with the lunar

module. Crew: James McDivitt, David

Scott and Russell “Rusty” Schweickart.

May 18, 1969:

Apollo 10

Apollo lunar mission.

The final dress

rehearsal confirms

everything but the

actual landing. Crew:

Thomas Stafford, John

Young and Eugene

Cernan.

July 16, 1969:

Apollo 11

Apollo lunar

mission. Neil

Armstrong

and Buzz

Aldrin become

the first

humans to

walk on the

moon. Michael

Collins stays

in lunar orbit.

November 14, 1969: Apollo 12

Apollo lunar mission. The second

lunar landing. Crew: Charles Conrad Jr.,

Richard Gordon and Alan Bean.

April 11, 1970:

Apollo 13

Apollo lunar

mission. An in-

flight explosion

thwarts

landing, but

the crew

returns 

safely. Crew:

Jim Lovell,

John “Jack”

Swigert and

Fred Haise.

January 31, 1971:

Apollo 14

Apollo lunar

mission. Another

successful journey.

Crew: Alan Shepard

Jr., Stuart Roosa

and Edgar Mitchell.

July 26, 1971: Apollo 15

Apollo lunar mission. The

fourth flight to land on the

moon, it is the first to use

the lunar roving vehicle.

Crew: David Scott, Alfred

Worden and James Irwin.

April 16, 1972:

Apollo 16

Apollo lunar

mission. The

fifth trek to the

lunar surface.

Crew: John

Young, Thomas

“Ken” Mattingly

and Charles

Duke Jr.

December 7, 1972: Apollo 17

Apollo lunar mission. Last

voyage to the moon. The

astronauts travel the greatest

distance on the lunar rover

and return more rock and

soil samples. Crew: Harrison

Schmitt, Eugene Cernan and

Ronald Evans.

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Apollo 8

Apollo 4

Apollo 1

Apollo 15

Apollo 17

Apollo 9