On 50 years of Apollo 11 space mission, a list of all the Apollo missions

On 50 years of Apollo 11 space mission, a list of all the Apollo missions

Edited by Explained Desk |Pune |Updated: July 20, 2019 11:30:57 am

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The inaugural mission was supposed to be launched on February 21. But disaster struck before the launch. A fire accident in the main capsule of the spacecraft during a pre-flight simulation exercise killed all the three astronauts who were to go on the mission.

Buzz Aldrin salutes the US Flag. (Source: NASA)

July 20 is the fiftieth anniversary of man’s first landing on the Moon, “a giant leap for mankind”, as Neil Armstrong described it. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were taken to the Moon by the Apollo-11 mission in 1969. They were the first of the six two-astronaut teams that landed on the Moon over the next three years. The last human Moon landing was made by the Apollo 17 mission on April 20, 1972, after which the Apollo project was called off.