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Apollo 17 Recovery

Dec 19, 1972 2:24 PM

The Apollo 17 Command Module (CM), with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, nears splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean to successfully concludes the final ...

Apollo 17 Launch

Dec 7, 1972 12:33 AM

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 7, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the firs...

Apollo 16 Recovery

Apr 27, 1972 2:45 PM

The Apollo 16 Command Module (CM), with astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, splashed down in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude their l...

Apollo 16 Launch

Apr 16, 1972 12:54 PM

The Apollo 16 Saturn V space vehicle carrying astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke, Jr., lifted off to the Moon at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from the Kennedy S...

Apollo 15 Splashdown

Aug 7, 1971 5:45 PM

The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, aboard safely touches down in the mid-P...

Apollo 15 Launch

Jul 26, 1971 10:34 AM

The 363-feet tall Apollo 15 (Spacecraft 112/Lunar Module 10/Saturn 510) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 9:34:00.79 a.m., July 26, 1971, on...

Apollo 14 Recovery

Feb 9, 1971 4:05 PM

Apollo 14 splashed down on February 9, 1971 at 4:05:00 p.m. EST approximately 765 nautical miles south of American Samoa. This image shows the Apollo 14 Command Module splashing down and two of it...

Apollo 14 Launch

Jan 31, 1971 4:03 PM

Apollo 14 launched at 4:03 p.m. EST on January 31, 1971 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. It carried astronauts Crew Alan B. Shepard, Jr.(commander), Stuart A. Roosa (command module pi...

Apollo 13 Splashdown

Apr 17, 1970 1:07 PM

Apollo 13 splashed down in the Pacific at 1:07 p.m. EST on April 17, 1969. NASA Image #AP13-S70-15870. Scan by Kipp Teague, Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.

Apollo 13 Launch

Apr 11, 1970 2:13 PM

Apollo 13 lifted off from Launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970 at 2:13 p.m. EST. The spacecraft carried astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr. (commander), John L. Swigert, Jr. (comm...

Apollo 12 Recovery

Nov 24, 1969 3:58 pm

Apollo 12 splashdown occurred at 3:58 p.m. EST, November 24, 1969, near American Samoa.

Apollo 12 Launch, Lightning Strike

Nov 14, 1969 11:22 am

Apollo 12 lifted off from launch pad 39A at 11:22am EST on November 14, 1969. Shortly after lift-off - at Ground Elapsed time of 36.5 seconds and 52 seconds - lightning struck both the Apollo 12 S...

Apollo 11 Astronauts in Mexico City

Sep 23, 1969

The Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, wearing sombreros and ponchos, are swarmed by thousands in Mexico City as their motorcade is slowed by the en...

New York City Welcomes Apollo 11 Astronauts

Aug 13, 1969

New York City welcomes the three Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, Jr., in a showering of ticker tape down Broadway and Park Avenue, in a parade termed at t...

Apollo 11 Docks with CM after Leaving the Moon

Jul 21, 1969 5:35 pm

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage left the Moon at 1:54pm EDT and docked with the Command/Service Module at 5:35pm EDT. This images shows the Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with Astron...

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bishoi at Sep 23, 2009 5:38:41 AM

You really need to add the second world war to the start of this time line. Without it the technology on which the space program was based as a whole would never have existed.

brooke6415540 at Nov 18, 2009 5:52:42 PM

do you want to be faretr

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