2. History John F. Kennedy who was the president at that time was encouraging space travel His goal was to send astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade This was only three weeks after Alan Shepard was the first American in space! What a huge goal Kennedy had for NASA
3. Goals/Objectives Established technology Having an established program of exploring the moon Capability of man in a space environment To have the upper hand in space technology
4. First Missions Were unmanned Basic goals were to test out the modules: Command, Lunar and Serria The Saturn V-rocket was also tested out
5. Apollo 1 January 27, 1967 Problems occurred During the ‘dress rehearsal’ Virgil Gossom (hmmm), Edward White and Roger Chaffee were getting ready to be the first men in the Apollo flight When they were running the test a flash fire started and the crew got trapped
6. Apollo 7 First manned mission Walter Schirra, DonnEiseleand Walt Cunningham Walter Schirra was the Commander
7. Apollo 7 Launched on October 11, 1968 Had a perfect launch “She’s riding like a dream” –Walter Schirra 5 minutes after that they made the first elliptical orbit around Earth
8. Apollo 7 Orbited Earth 163 times Lasted 10 days and 20 hours Goal was to check the service module to set the future lunar mission
9. Problems with Apollo 7 The lunar module adapter panels didn’t deploy all the way Noisy fans Some of the windows fogged due to improperly cured sealant The chargers for the batteries did not fully charge them Many other little inconvenient problems
10. Apollo 8 Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr. and William Anders First manned orbit of the moon Goals were to make sure the crew and facilities were operating smoothly and take pictures of the assumed Apollo landing site Lasted 6 days, and 3 hours
11. Apollo 10 Eugene Cernan, John Young, and Thomas Stafford Launched on May 18, 1969 Goals were to check how things operated in the lunar gravitation field Lasted 8 days So Close!
12. Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong (Commander), Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, and Michael Collins Launched on July 16, 1969 Goal was to perform an manned lunar landing
13. Apollo 11 Landed on July 24, 1969 on the Sea of Traquility “The Eagle has landed…” Buzz Aldrin was originally supposed to be the first man on the moon
14. Apollo 11 Before they docked to get out, Buzz was told that it wouldn’t be him, but Neil would be the first one on the moon Wouldn’t you like to just hurt Neil if you were Buzz? “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”- Neil Armstrong They had finally earned a lead in space exploration
15. Apollo 12 Charles Conrad Jr., Richard Gordon Jr., and Alan Bean Launched on November, 14, 1969 Landed on moon (Ocean of Storms) Lasted 10 days and 4 hours Didn’t have any objectives but they did two lunar walks and brought parts of the Surveyor 3 back
16. Apollo 13 James Lovell Jr., Fred Haise Jr., and John Swigert Jr. Originally Ken Mattingly was supposed to go but he got the measles so Swigert went instead
17. Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem.” The oxygen was being released into space Had to live in the lunar module Continued to orbit the moon and use its pull to shoot them back to Earth
18. Apollo 13 Other problems were carbon dioxide, water and power. Mattingly helped start the Command Module Got back safely “Successful Failure”
19. Apollo 14 Alan Shepard Jr., Stuart Rossa and Edgar Mitchell Landed on Fra Mauro on the moon Stayed on the moon for about a day and 10 hours. First time moon rocks were brought back
20. Apollo 15 David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden Launched on July 26, 1971 Landed on August 7, 1971 Hadley-Apennine area near Apennine Mts. Lasted 12 days and 17 hours
21. Apollo 16 John Young, Thomas Mattingly II and Charles Duke Launched on April 16, 1972 Landed on April 27, 1972 on the Descartes Highlands Collected lunar samples
22. Apollo 17 Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt Launched on December 7, 1972 Lasted 12 days and 13 hours Landed on Taurus-Littrow Highlands Objectives were to be able to see where rocks that were younger and older than the ones already taken back
23. What did/does the future hold? Apollo-Soyuz Americans and Soviets united International spaceflight and rescue Future international crews Space Shuttle Reusable booster and orbiter Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis and Columbia Mars? NASA plans to go to Mars, but its not known when this will actually happen
24. Citations Pictures NASA - Image of the the Day - Gallery. (n.d.). NASA - Home. Retrieved May 29, 2011, from http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html Information NASA - Apollo Missions. (n.d.). NASA - Home. Retrieved May 29, 2011, from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/index.html
