This week, NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first crewed mission to the moon. However, as its name implies, the Apollo 11 mission was just one small part of various missions to send humans to the moon.The United States Apollo program began in the mid-1960s, shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s call to send a man to the moon in 1961, with the intent of sending a crew to orbit the Earth in February 1967. […]
Source: The Jacksonvill Daily News
Apollo 1: The moon mission that ended in a fatal fire
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