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The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961–1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. US President John F. Kennedy announced this goal in 1961, and it was accomplished on July 20, 1969 by the landing of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, with Michael Collins orbiting above during the Apollo 11 mission. Five other Apollo... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Apollo program The Apollo program returned 381.7 kg (841.5 lb) of rocks and other material from the Moon, much of which is stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston.

Allende meteorite It is often described as "the best-studied meteorite in history," largely due to the fact that the massive, primitive meteorite fell at a time when the field of planetary science was growing and developing instrumentation for the return of moon rocks by the Apollo program.

Allende meteorite There are several reasons for this: Allende fell in early 1969, just months before the Apollo program was to return the first moon rocks.

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Apollo program The Apollo program returned 381.7 kg (841.5 lb) of rocks and other material from the Moon, much of which is stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston.

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Viking biological experiments In fact, martian soils were found to contain less carbon than lifeless lunar soils returned by the Apollo Program.

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Space weathering Much of our knowledge of the space weathering process comes from studies of the lunar samples returned by the Apollo program, particularly the lunar soils (or regolith).

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Interplanetary spaceflight NASA's Apollo program, however, landed twelve people on the Moon and returned them to Earth.

Interplanetary travel NASA's Apollo program, however, landed twelve people on the Moon and returned them to Earth.

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Bernard Chouet Seeking an opportunity to do research in robotics, he subsequently worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); specifically, at the Man-Vehicle Laboratory in the Center for Space Research, which was doing research for NASA’s Apollo program to land men on the Moon.

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NASA The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.

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List of Apollo missions The Apollo program used four types of launch vehicles:

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List of Apollo missions The Apollo program used four types of launch vehicles:

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Parking orbit The Apollo program used parking orbits, for all the reasons mentioned above except those that pertain to geostationary orbits.

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    Apollo program

    The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961–1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions.
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    Category:Apollo program

    Apollo mission Apollo program
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    Apollo Applications Program

    The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was established by NASA headquarters in 1968 to develop science-based manned space missions using surplus material from the Apollo program.
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    Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories

    Despite that disaster, the Soyuz program continued, after a lengthy interval to solve design problems, as with the Apollo program.
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    Apollo 15

    Congressional questioning of NASA officials about the "Stamp Affair" caused further embarrassment for the agency as the Apollo program wound down.
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    Apollo 13

    Missions of the Apollo program
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    Apollo 8

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh would later write a book about the Apollo program, entitled Earth Shine, which mentions both the launch and the mission.
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    Apollo 1

    Missions of the Apollo program
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    Canceled Apollo missions

    Two complete Saturn Vs went unused after the Apollo program, SA-514 and -515, as well as the third stage of the SA-513.
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    List of Apollo astronauts

    A total of thirty-eight astronauts flew in an Apollo spacecraft, twenty-nine of whom were part of the Apollo program, the rest being Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz astronauts.

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