Apollo and the Moon


The Apollo Missions

There were 22 unmanned Apollo missions, some testing the Saturn V & Saturn 1B launchers, others testing the Apollo rocket with the launcher. These included Apollos 1-6.
- - Apollo 4 - - Apollo 5 - - Apollo 6 - -

Apollo AS-204 was a crewed non-flight test of the Apollo, resulting in the deaths of the crew by fire, and retrospectively named Apollo 1 in their memory.
The men were Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Apollos 7 and 9 were in Earth orbit.
Apollos 8, 10 and 13 reached Moon orbit.
Apollos 11, 12, 14 - 17 landed on the Moon.
These were followed by three Apollo trips to skylab and an Apollo / Soyuz link-up.
- - Apollo 7 - - Apollo 8 - - Apollo 9 - - Apollo 10 - - Apollo 11 - - Apollo 12 - - Apollo 13 - - Apollo 14 - - Apollo 15 - - Apollo 16 - - Apollo 17 - - Apollo-Soyuz - -