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| Saturn V
| Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,<br/>William Anders
| Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,<br/>William Anders
| First journey to Moon and back. Orbited the Moon ten times over a 20 hour period. The crew were the first humans to see the far side of the moon.  
| First journey to Moon and back. Orbited the Moon ten times over a 20 hour period. The crew members were the first humans to see the far side of the moon.  
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| Apollo 9
| Apollo 9

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The Apollo missions and the crew members of the manned missions [1][2][3]
Mission
Identifier
Launch
date
Launch
rocket
Crew Brief Mission Description
AS-201 Feb. 26, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 36 minute suborbital test
AS-203 July 5, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 88 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
AS-202 Aug. 25, 1966 Saturn 1B Unmanned 93 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
AS-204
(Apollo 1)
None Saturn 1B Virgil Grissom, Edward White,
Roger Chaffee
Fire destroyed the Command Module and killed the three crew members during a launch pad test.
Apollo 4 Nov. 9, 1967 Saturn V Unmanned 8 hour and 37 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately six orbits)
Apollo 5 Jan. 22, 1968 Saturn 1B Unmanned 11 hour and 10 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately eight orbits)
Apollo 6 Apr. 4, 1968 Saturn V Unmanned 10 hour and 22 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately seven orbits)
Apollo 7 Oct. 11, 1968 Saturn 1B Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele,
Walter Cunningham
163 Earth orbits of the Earth during a successful, fully manned test of almost 11 days (longer then a journey to the Moon and back).
Apollo 8 Dec. 21, 1968 Saturn V Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,
William Anders
First journey to Moon and back. Orbited the Moon ten times over a 20 hour period. The crew members were the first humans to see the far side of the moon.
Apollo 9 Mar. 3, 1969 Saturn V James McDivitt, David Scott,
Russell Schweickart
Apollo 10 May 18, 1969 Saturn V Thomas Stafford, John Young,
Eugene Cernan
Apollo 11 July 16, 1969 Saturn V Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin,
Michael Collins
First lunar landing
Apollo 12 Nov. 14, 1969 Saturn V Charles Conrad, Alan Bean,
Richard Gordon
Apollo 13 Apr. 11, 1970 Saturn V Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert,
Fred Haise
Apollo 14 Jan. 31, 1971 Saturn V Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa,
Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 15 July 26, 1971 Saturn V David Scott, Alfred Worden,
James Irwin
Apollo 16 Apr. 16, 1972 Saturn V John Young, Ken Mattingly,
Charles Duke
Apollo 17 Dec. 7, 1972 Saturn V Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans,
Harrison Schmitt

References

  1. Human Spaceflight From the NASA website.
  2. Kennedy Space Center Apollo Manned Flight Summaries From the Kennedy Space Center website.
  3. Unmanned Apollo-Saturn Missions From the Kennedy Space Center website.