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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 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