TEAMQUEST'S SPACEFLIGHT HOMEPAGE

APOLLO PROJECT

The Apollo Project was started in the early 1960's and testing started in the mid-60's. Apollo was the mission that was going to take the Americans to the moon. President Kennedy had paved the way for the Apollo Project prior to his assasination. This was an era of spaceflight that grabbed the world and held it's attention in front of the television. The images that Apollo sent back to Earth were breathtaking. Millions of people worldwide witnessed the EVA's on the Moon and were mesmerized.

The only TeamQuest '96 member that remembers the moon flights is Bryan SR. (born 12/1961) Bryan SR. states:

I never missed a spaceflight or NASA broadcast. Most of the broadcasting took place in the very early hours of the morning, here on the west coast. I would force my parents to get up and watch it with me. I could not believe it was not important to them! I remember vividly all of Apollo, the landing, Armstrong's descent, the golfing on the moon, the joy of the men on the Moon and in Houston, the Lunar Rover (LR), the Lunar Module (LM) seperating and blasting off the moon. I remember going outside and seeing Apollo going by. No lie, the news would tell us when to look, and you could see Apollo zipping through the sky like a satellite or high plane.

We thought Bryan SR. was pulling our leg, so we went to his Mother and Father, Gramma Nancy and Grandpa Boyd both stated:

That kid was relentless. He would write down the times that the NASA broadcasts would be on and hang the note in the kitchen. Like he had a built in alarmclock in his head, Bryan would spring out of bed and come roust us. Apollo is on, Apollo is on. He would run through the house in a Paul Revere fashion at 4:00 in the morning. Apollo is on! OR Get up, Come outside, Apollo is going by, Apollo is going by.

The goals for the Apollo Missions were as follows:

• To establish the technology to meet other national interests in space.
  
• To achieve dominance in space for the United States.
  
• To develop man's ability to work in a weightless and lunar environment.
  
• To have an American walk on the moon first.

Apollo achieved all of the objectives above and more.
Below you will find a list of Apollo Missions amd Images.

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APOLLO MISSIONS
MISSION and DATES	CREW	DURATION	OBJECTIVES	ACCOMP- LISHMENTS
APOLLO I Sch 02/21/1967	Virgil Grissom Edward White Roger Chaffee	fire during training exercise	all 3 crewmembers died	setback Apollo project
APOLLO VII 10/11/1968	Walter Schirra Don Eisele Walter Cunningham	10 Days, 20 hours	1st TV camera	shared space with the world
APOLLO VIII 12/21/1968	L. Frank Borman James Lovell William Anders	6 Days, 3 hours	Check out the moon	Great photos of lunar surface
APOLLO IX 03/03/1969	James McDivitt David Scott Russell Schweichart	10 Days, 1 Hr	test Saturn V and man's performance	proved we could go to moon
APOLLO X 05/18/1969	Thomas Stafford Eugene Cernan John Young	8 Days 0 hrs	test LM	Got close to moon
APOLLO XI 07/16/1969	Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin Aldrin	8 Days, 3 Hours	Land on the Moon	1st Man on the Moon
APOLLO XII 11/14/1969	Charle Conrad JR. Richard Gordon Alan Bean	10 Days 4 Hrs	collect samples and survey	comp.controlled landing important step
APOLLO XIII 04/11/1970	James Lovell John Swigert Fred Haise JR.	5 days 20 Hrs	survey moon surface	explosion damaged ship crew returned unharmed
APOLLO XIV 01/31/1971	Alan Shepard Stuart Roosa Edgar Mithchell	9 Days 0 Hrs	explore Fra Mauro Highlands	great sesimic info learned
APOLLO XV 07/26/1971	David Scott Alfred Worden James Irwin	12 Days 7 Hrs	1st mission with Lunar Rover	data and samples from various regions
APOLLO XVI 04/18/1972	John Young Thomas Mattingly II Charles Duke JR.	11 Days 1 Hr	Gather mineral from 3 different regions	Used moon for celestial studies
APOLLO XVII 12/06/1972	Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans Harrison Schmitt	12 Days 13 Hrs	Gather mineral samples	1st geologist to visit moon

• APOLLO I FACTS | APOLLO I IMAGES
  
• APOLLO VII FACTS | APOLLO VII IMAGES
  
• APOLLO VIII FACTS | APOLLO VIII IMAGES
  
• APOLLO IX FACTS | APOLLO IX IMAGES
  
• APOLLO X FACTS | APOLLO X IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XI FACTS | APOLLO XI IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XII FACTS | APOLLO XII IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XIII FACTS | APOLLO XIII IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XIV FACTS | APOLLO XIV IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XV FACTS | APOLLO XV IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XVI FACTS | APOLLO XVI IMAGES
  
• APOLLO XVII FACTS | APOLLO XVII IMAGES
  
• APOLLO-SOYUZ FACTS | APOLLO-SOYUZ IMAGES
  

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