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Apollo Mission Diagram

NASA’s Apollo program successfully put men on the Moon in 1969. This chart from NGA’s Aeronautical Chart and Information Center depicts key mission events. The Columbia was used by astronauts during most of their mission as their living and command center, equipped with an impressive rocket engine to maneuver them into lunar orbit and out

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Apollo 16

Fifty years ago, two spacecraft danced closely in formation high above a lunar landscape of grays and tans. On board were John Young (mission commander) and Charles M. Duke Jr (lunar module pilot), ready to undertake an epic journey across its rugged highlands and descend towards its surface. Their objectives included exploring the descartes and

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Apollo Missions 11

On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin made history when they took steps onto the moon for the first time, watched by millions around the globe. They planted the American flag and read out loud a plaque reading: “We came in peace for all humanity,” before returning back into Eagle to rejoin Michael Collins. During

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Sixty-Four Years After Apollo 11 landed Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins on the Moon

34 years ago, a Saturn V rocket launched from Cape Kennedy with Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins aboard. Millions of viewers across the world watched live as Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins successfully reached and landed on the moon. President Kennedy had spent weeks carefully considering America’s space options after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made headlines by

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