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During The Four Years Between December 1968 And November 1972, There Were Nine Manned Flights To The Moon. Twenty-Four Men Made The Journey. They Were The First Human Beings To Leave The Planet Earth For Another World. This Is The Film They Brought Back... ...And These Are Their Words. An In-Depth Look At The NASA Apollo Program's Sixteen Human Spaceflight Missions To The Moon In An Oscar Nominated Feature Length Motion Picture With An Original Musical Score By Brian Eno, And Narrated By Astronauts Who Went On Those Missions - Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Alan Bean, Jack Swigert, Stuart Roosa, James Irwin, Kenneth Mattingly, Charles Duke And Harrison Schmitt - Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1989, 1 Hour 20 Minutes.) #JimLovell #PeteConrad #AlanBean #StuartRoosa #MichaelCollins #JamesIrwin #AlWorden #RussellSchweickart #CharlesDuke #HarrisonSchmitt #KennethMattingly #JackSwigert #RichardFGordonJr #EugeneCernan #Apollo7 #Apollo8 #Apollo9 #Apollo10 #Apollo11 #Apollo12 #Apollo13 #Apollo14 #Apollo15 #Apollo16 #Apollo17 #ApolloProgram #ProjectApollo #MoonLanding #MoonWalkers #NASA #NASAHistory #SpaceExploration #Moon #TheMoon #MannedSpaceProgram #HumanSpaceflightPrograms #DVD #VideoDownload #USBFlashDrive
The Apollo Program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. It was first conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow the one-person Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by the two-person Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last, Apollo 17, in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve people walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first crewed flight in 1968. It encountered a major setback in 1967 when an Apollo 1 cabin fire killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first successful landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which destroyed the service module's capability to provide electrical power, crippling the CSM's propulsion and life support systems. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the lunar module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. Apollo used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three crewed missions in 1973-74, and Apollo-Soyuz, a joint US-Soviet Union Earth-orbit mission in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, and Apollo 11 was the first crewed spacecraft to land humans on one. Overall the Apollo program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's subsequent human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and human spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers.