Space Missions

Apollo 11
Apollo 11
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The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. It was also the second...

Apollo 12
Apollo 12
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Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and...

Apollo 1
Apollo 1
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Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. Its command module was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on...

Mercury-Redstone 2
Mercury-Redstone 2
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Mercury-Redstone 2 was a rocket mission, launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mercury spacecraft # 5 carried Ham the Chimp as a passenger on a...

Mercury-Atlas 5
Mercury-Atlas 5
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Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961 with Enos the Chimp, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice...

Apollo 13
Apollo 13
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Apollo 13 was the third manned mission by the United States that was intended to land on the Moon, but a mid-mission technical malfunction forced the lunar landing to be aborted. The crew...

STS-120
STS-120
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STS-120 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station , that launched on October 23, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A...

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