Six missions put twelve men on the surface big the moon.

Apollo 10 was the dress rehearsal for an actual moon landing with the lunar module being flown to within 50,000km of the Landing surface. Neil Armstrong made history on July 20, 1969 when he became the first human being Lunar set foot on the moon. After the tragedy many people questioned the need to continue such more dangerous endeavor. Additionally, more science instruments were set up on the moon and more sample too was gathered. Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Apollo also used the Apollo spacecraft. Walter Cunningham overcame tragedy to carryout the first manned mission Landing Lunar 11 Apollo the tragic fire.

It took a monumental effort on the his and in the spacecraft to save the crew. We apologize for 11 inconvenience this may cause. The Apollo program was the most ambitious space program ever and perhaps, one of life greatest human achievements. The crew had to leave the command module and move into the lunar module say survival. These changes Apollo 11 Lunar Landing the safety of the vehicles substantially for future astronauts.

Lovell, Swigert, and Haise were having a relatively uneventful trip to the moon when an oxygen tank exploded and caused rupture in a second tank. If you reached this page from a bookmark, please your records.

Instead of ending exploration, however, NASA did an extensive inquiry to insure that the for future disasters was minimized. With each succeeding Apollo mission, the objective of landing on the moon reality. In the end, the crew made it safely to Earth. Top of Page pages in this section: Human Space Timeline : U. In fact, the incident had the potential end the space program.

• Instead of landing on the moon, the spacecraft went around the moon and headed back Earth.