Dec 19, 1972 · After the cancellation of Apollo 18, the Apollo mission Schmitt had originally intended to go on, the scientific community lobbied that he be put onto Apollo 17. Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, collects lunar rake samples at Station 1 during the mission's first spacewalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site ...

NASA recordings of the final 13 minutes of the Apollo 11 Moon landing capture the tension and the triumph of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins's historic mission. Follow the radio communications between the astronauts and Mission Control during the lunar module's descent.

The transcript is based on NASA videos and audio recordings of radio communications between the Apollo 11 lunar module and Mission Control. Where a phrase or term is unclear, we have attempted to explain in italics what the astronauts or Mission Control were referring to. Apollo 11 Moon landing: minute by minute 20:05. Buzz Aldrin: One, zero ...

Project Apollo kept up the trend of taking inspiration from classical mythology: Apollo was a significant God to both the Greeks and the Romans. For the Apollo 7 and 8 missions, call signs were limited to simply mission name and number. However, in 1969 the Apollo 9 mission used two different spacecraft: the lunar module and the command module.

The fact that the Apollo 11 mission went ahead in July 1969 is testament to the success of Apollo 10. Everything that was due to take place on Apollo 11, bar actually landing, was tested on this mission. However it nearly suffered a fatal crash. As the lunar module was just 12 kilometres above the lunar surface, the crew accidentally gave the ...

The three astronauts on Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 crew consisted of three men. Neil Armstrong - Mission Commander. Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - lunar module pilot . Michael Collins - command module pilot. There were three parts to the spacecraft.

The third Artemis mission will last 30 days, and is set to be the first human Moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. Four astronauts will fly to the Moon on board Orion, where they will dock with Gateway in orbit around the Moon. The Human Landing System will be designed by SpaceX and will be a lunar-adapted version of its reusable rocket Starship.

As part of the Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were scheduled to walk on the Moon, but the lunar landing had to be aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later. The Apollo 13 mission did set a record as the farthest humans have ever travelled from Earth. Haise was meant to again walk on the Moon as part of the Apollo 19 ...

Apollo 8. Collins was a capsule communicator for the Apollo 8 mission. Stationed at Mission Control he communicated directly with the crew. Apollo 11. Collins should originally have flown on Apollo 9, but a spinal injury and his need for surgery meant that he could not fly. He recovered well enough to be later assigned to Apollo 11.

NASA recordings of the final 13 minutes of the Apollo 11 Moon landing capture the tension and the triumph of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins's historic mission. Follow the radio communications between the astronauts and Mission Control during the lunar module's descent.