{"slug": "apollo-program", "label": "Apollo program", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46611", "qid": "Q46611", "description": "1961–1972 American human spaceflight program", "entries": 22, "years": 9, "span": [1961, 2024], "span_label": ["1961 CE", "2024 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 21}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "moon", "label": "Moon", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "nasa", "label": "NASA", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "earth", "label": "Earth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – Apollo program: U.S. President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, that the United States \"should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#May", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#January–February", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#January", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#November", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Apollo program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last uncrewed test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#March–April", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Apollo program: The crewed U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs Earthrise. The crew also give a reading from the Book of Genesis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#November–December", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "October 11", "text": "October 11 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and simulating lunar module rendezvous and docking, using the S-IVB rocket stage as a test target.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#September–October", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the Moon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#July", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#July", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#July", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#March", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott) to test the lunar module.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#March", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford, John Young) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the Moon landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#May", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the Moon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#November", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (\"Ocean of Storms\"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#November", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#November", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched from the United States toward the Moon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#April", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third human Moon landing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#February", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#January", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to walk on the Moon until 2028 at the earliest, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#December", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#December", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – The first commercial spacewalk is conducted by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, which also includes the highest altitude orbit by a human crew since the Apollo program.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#September", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › September"}}]}