17 Apollo
flights launched by U.S. from 1968-72 (exploring the moon).
Mission was to
land a man on the moon (President John F. Kennedy's goal).
First Lunar
landing by Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969 at 4:17.42 PM Eastern
Daylight Time.
The first
manned surface vehicle to explore the moon- Lunar Rover (Which
operated for 18.5 hours)(Apollo 15).
3 Apollo
flights carried astronauts to Skylab space station in 1973-74.
Apollo-Soyuz
test project was a joint flight with Russian astronauts in 1975.
The total cost
of the Apollo lunar program was $25 billion.
The Apollo
program was the first space mission to bring back the chemical
compostion of the lunar rocks (And the actual lunar rocks).
Do you know
what is the most abundant element on the moon's surface?
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