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Apollo program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national…

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Cost
$25.4 billion (1973) · $257 billion (2020)
Country
United States
Crewed vehicles
Apollo CSM · Apollo LM
Duration
1961–1972
Failures
2 (Apollo 1 and 13)
First crewed flight
Apollo 7 · October 11, 1968 (1968-10-11)

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Background

NASA expansion

Choosing a mission mode

Spacecraft

Launch vehicles

Astronauts

Lunar mission profile

Development history

Samples returned

Costs

Apollo Applications Program

Recent observations

Legacy

Depictions on film

NASA reports

Multimedia

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Apollo program

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Edges366
Triples382
Avg. degree1.99
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Components1

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Apollo program

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related to Organization · 36
Apollo program → Administrator Webb, Air Force, Apollo, Apollo Program Director, Associate Administrator, Based, Bernard, Brainerd Holmes, Braun, Debus, Deputy Administrator, Deputy Associate Administrator, General Samuel, George, Gilruth, January, July, Launch Operations Center, Manned Space Flight, Manned Spacecraft Center
related to Fictional · 31
Apollo program → Agent, Apollo, Black, Chris Hadfield, Cold War, Cybertronian, Dark, Destiny, Dial, For All Mankind, Indiana Jones, Jamestown, Jürgen Voller, Men, Moon, MoonIndiana Jones, NASA, Nazi, Science Fiction/Action, Science Fiction/Comedy
related to Launch vehicles · 25
Apollo program → Apollo, Army, AS-10x, AS-20x, AS-50x, Before, Braun, Director, In, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mercury, Mercury-Atlas, Mercury-Redstone, MSFC, NASA, Nova, Nova-class, Project Gemini, Saturn, Saturn IB
related to Manned Spacecraft Center · 24
Apollo program → Administrator Webb, Apollo, Cape Canaveral Air Force, Earth, Florida, Gilruth, Gilruth's Space Task Group, Houston, In September, It, Kennedy, Manned Spacecraft Center, Mission Control Center, MSC, NASA, NASA's Langley Research Center, Project Mercury, Rice, Rice University, Robert
related to Multimedia · 24
Apollo program → Apollo, Arizona State UniversityAudio, FlickrApollo Image Atlas, Image Archive, Internet Archive, James Webb, Kennedy, Kipp Teague, Lunar, NASA, NASA Apollo Program, NASA Documentary, National Archives, November, Planetary InstituteApollo, President John, Project Apollo Archive, The, The Journeys, The Project Apollo Archive
related to Documentaries · 23
Apollo program → Apollo, BBC, Chasing, Footprints, For All Mankind, In, It All, James May, Magnificent Desolation, Moon, Moon Machines, Moon Shot, Moonwalk One, NASA's Story, Numerous, Shadow, Space Race, The Greatest Adventure, The NASA Missions, The Planets
related to Origin and spacecraft feasibility studies · 22
Apollo program → Apollo, Dryden, Earth, Eisenhower, General Dynamics/Convair, General Electric, Glenn, In July, Martin Company, Maxime Faget, Meanwhile, Mercury, NASA, NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh, October, On August, Possible, Preliminary, Project Mercury, Space Task Group
related to Saturn I · 21
Apollo program → Apollo, AS-101, AS-105, CSMs, Earth, LC-34, LC-37, LOX, Pegasus, Pratt, Rocketdyne H-1, RP-1, S-IV, Saturn, The, The S-I, The S-IV, The S-V, This, US
related to Astronauts · 20
Apollo program → Apollo, December, Deke, Donald, Earth's, Ed White, Gemini, Gus Grissom, Half, Mercury Seven, Moon, Moon's, NASA's, Of, One, Roger Chaffee, September, Slayton, Thirty-two, Twenty-four
related to External links · 20
Apollo program → Alabama, Anniversary Interactive Feature, Apollo, Apollo Spinoffs, April, Archived, Flash, HSF, Huntsville Archives, Lunar, Lunar Mission Timeline, NASA, NASA History Program Office, NASA's Human Space Flight, National Air, Planetary InstituteApollo Collection, Space MuseumApollo, Special Collections, The Apollo Program, The University

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apollo lunar moon program first nasa space mission would earth saturn flight spacecraft module landing orbit lm missions csm crewed

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Apollo programCost$25.4 billion (1973)1.00infobox
Apollo programCost$257 billion (2020)1.00infobox
Apollo programCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Apollo programCrewed vehiclesApollo CSM1.00infobox
Apollo programCrewed vehiclesApollo LM1.00infobox
Apollo programDuration1961–19721.00infobox
Apollo programFailures2 (Apollo 1 and 13)1.00infobox
Apollo programFirst crewed flightApollo 71.00infobox
Apollo programFirst crewed flightOctober 11, 1968 (1968-10-11)1.00infobox
Apollo programFirst flightSA-11.00infobox
Apollo programFirst flightOctober 27, 1961 (1961-10-27)1.00infobox
Apollo programLast flightApollo 171.00infobox
Apollo programLast flightDecember 7, 1972 (1972-12-07)1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch sitesCape Kennedy1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch sitesKennedy Space Center1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch sitesWhite Sands1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch vehiclesLittle Joe II1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch vehiclesSaturn I1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch vehiclesSaturn IB1.00infobox
Apollo programLaunch vehiclesSaturn V1.00infobox
Apollo programOrganizationNASA1.00infobox
Apollo programPartial failures1 (Apollo 6)1.00infobox
Apollo programPurposeCrewed lunar landing1.00infobox
Apollo programStatusCompleted1.00infobox
Apollo programSuccesses321.00infobox

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