The Daily Galaxy on MSN: Astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo on the moon during a 1972 Apollo 16 mission, and it may still be there today!
Astronaut Charles Duke left a family photo on the moon during a 1972 Apollo 16 mission, and it may still be there today!
Apollo 11 was one of 15 Apollo missions that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Learn more about the missions that paved the way for the Moon landing, and the missions where Americans returned to the Moon after.
Many are familiar with Apollo 11, the mission that landed humans on the Moon for the first time. It was part of the larger Apollo program. There were several missions during the Apollo program from 1961 to 1972. Humans landed on the moon during six missions, Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
On July 20, when the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, the world was watching. People from across the globe shared their memories of the moon landing with us.
Apollo 8, which launched on , was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. While the crew did not land on the Moon's surface, the flight was an important prelude to a lunar landing, testing the flight trajectory and operations getting there and back.
They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Not since the end of 1972 has a human set foot on the ...
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