Apollo–Soyuz, known in the United States as the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project and in the Soviet Union as the Soyuz–Apollo experimental flight, was the first international crewed space mission. In July 1975 an Apollo spacecraft with three…
The Apollo program was NASA's effort to land human beings on the surface of the Moon and return them safely to Earth, and it remains the largest civil engineering undertaking the United States has attempted in peacetime. It began in the…
Apollo 16 was the tenth crewed flight of NASA's Apollo program and the fifth of the six missions that put astronauts on the Moon. Flown from 16 to 27 April 1972, it was the second of the "J missions", which combined three-day surface…
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo programme and the sixth, and most recent, human landing on the Moon. It lifted off at night on December 7, 1972 aboard Saturn V SA-512, the only night launch of a crewed…
Apollo 10 was the fourth crewed mission of the Apollo programme and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA designed it as the dress rehearsal for the first landing: an "F" mission meant to repeat, step by step, everything Apollo 11 would do…
Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight of NASA's Apollo program and the second to put people on the surface of the Moon. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on 14 November 1969 and came home on 24 November with a splashdown in the South…
Apollo 14 was the third mission to land on the Moon and the first to touch down in the lunar highlands. It lifted off on 31 January 1971 under the command of Alan Shepard, the first American in space, with Stuart Roosa flying the command…
Apollo 15 was the fourth American mission to put astronauts on the surface of the Moon and the first of the so-called J missions, designed for longer stays with science at the heart of the flight plan. It lifted off from Launch Complex 39A…
The Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle built by SpaceX and the first privately developed and privately funded liquid-propellant orbital rocket to reach Earth orbit. It was a two-stage vehicle burning kerosene and liquid oxygen, about…
Super Heavy is the reusable first stage of SpaceX's Starship system: the booster that, topped by the Starship upper stage, makes up the super heavy-lift vehicle with which the company intends to carry cargo and crews to the Moon and Mars.…
Apollo 9 was the first mission to fly a lunar module in space with a crew aboard. It lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on 3 March 1969 atop Saturn V SA-504 — the fourth to fly and the first to carry a lunar module — with James…
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational influence, reach the Moon and orbit it. Launched on 21 December 1968 from the Kennedy Space Center atop Saturn V AS-503 — the rocket's first crewed flight — it carried…
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