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…
Apollo 11 was the mission that first landed humans on the surface of the Moon and returned them safely to Earth, fulfilling the goal John F. Kennedy had set before Congress in May 1961. Launched from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space…
Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight of the Apollo program and the mission that returned the United States to space after twenty-one months of silence. It lifted off from Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station on 11 October…
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed flight of the Apollo programme and was meant to be the third Moon landing. It lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on 11 April 1970 aboard Saturn V AS-508, with James A. Lovell in command, John L.…
Apollo 6 (AS-502), launched on April 4, 1968 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, was the third and final uncrewed flight of the Apollo programme and the second flight of the Saturn V. It carried no crew: its payload was…
Apollo 5, also designated AS-204, was the first flight of the Apollo lunar module and one of the uncrewed missions that decided whether the programme would meet its end-of-decade deadline. It lifted off from Cape Kennedy on 22 January 1968…
Apollo 4, launched on November 9, 1967, was the first flight of a Saturn V and the first mission to leave the Kennedy Space Center, inaugurating Launch Complex 39A, built expressly for the lunar giant. It carried no crew but everything…
Apollo 1 is the name under which NASA recorded mission AS-204, the first crewed flight planned for the Apollo programme: a low Earth orbit test of the command and service module, flying Block I spacecraft CSM-012 on a Saturn IB and…
AS-203 was the second flight of the Saturn IB series and the only Apollo mission to lift off with no spacecraft aboard. Launched from Complex 37B at Cape Kennedy on 5 July 1966, it replaced the command and service module with an…
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