Apollo Lunar Program Development/Test Flights
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| Mission *Type (Series) | Apollo 1 AS-204 C | Apollo 7 AS-205 C | Apollo 8 AS-503 Planned E Designated C’ | Apollo 9 AS-504 D | Apollo 10 AS-505 F |
| Crew: CDR CMP LMP | V. Grissom E. White R. Chaffee | W. Schirra D. Eisele W. Cunningham | F. Borman J. Lovell W. Anders | J. McDivitt D. Scott R. Schweickart | T. Stafford J. Young E. Cernan |
| Launch date Splashdown date | N/A | 11 Oct 68 22 Oct 68 | 21 Dec 68 27 Dec 68 | 3 Mar 69 13 Mar 69 | 18 May 69 26 May 69 |
| Launch vehicle S/N | Saturn 1B SA-204 | Saturn 1B SA-205 | Saturn V SA-503 | Saturn V SA-504 | Saturn V SA-505 |
| CSM S/N Call sign LM S/N Call sign | CSM-012 (1) N/A | CSM-101 (2) N/A | CSM-103 N/A | CSM-104 (3) Gumdrop LM-3 Spider | CSM-106 Charlie Brown LM-4 Snoopy |
| EVA: date duration | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6 March 69 00:46 | N/A |
| EVA Objective | N/A | N/A | N/A | Test Apollo EMU Test CSM/LM for EVA support | N/A |
| Mission duration (DD:HH:MM) | N/A | 10:20:09 | 06:03:00 | 10:01:00 | 08:00:03 |
| Footnotes | (1) CSM-012 only manned Block 1 spacecraft used in Apollo program | (2) Missions flown with CSM only (no LM) did not use call signs | (3) Flights with LM used call signs after LM was powered up and manned | ||
| Significant events | Flash fire in spacecraft killed entire crew | First manned Apollo mission First flight of manned Saturn launch vehicle | First manned flight to lunar orbit First manned flight of Saturn V launch vehicle | First test flight of LM/CSM combination | Second lunar orbital flight LM descended to within ~50,000 ft of lunar surface |
“A” & “B” missions were unmanned test flights “C” missions were manned, earth orbital tests of the CSM (Apollos 1 and 7) Apollo 8 was designated as C’ (C prime) “D” missions were manned, earth orbital tests of the LM and CSM (Apollo 9) “E” mssions were manned tests in high earth orbit (original plan for Apollo 8) “F” missions were manned tests in lunar orbit (Apollo 10) the “G” mission was the first landing (Apollo 11) Later, 3 other mission types were added to the list: “H” missions were subsequent missions to other landing sites using the basic hardware (Apollos 12, 13, and 14) “I” missions were to be lunar orbit only science flights (none flown, although some interesting design studies were made) “J” missions would be longer stays on the moon utilizing impovements to the LM design (Apollos 15, 16, and 17) |
Type (Series) | AS-506 G | AS-507 H | AS-508 H | AS-509 H |
| Crew: CDR CMP | M. Collins E. Aldrin | R. Gordon A. Bean | J. Swigert (4) F. Haise | S. Roosa E. Mitchell |
Splashdown date | 24 July 69 | 24 Nov 69 | 17 Apr 70 | 9 Feb 71 |
AS-506 | AS-507 | AS-508 | AS-509 | |
Call sign LM S/N Call sign | Columbia LM-5 Eagle | Yankee Clipper LM-6 Intrepid | Odyssey LM-7 Aquarius | Kitty Hawk LM-8 Antares |
Landing site | Sea of Tranquility | Ocean of Storms | Fra Mauro plain | |
Duration (H:MM) | 2:14 | 3:39 | 4:49 | |
| Collect lunar samples Deploy scientific experiments | Collect lunar samples | ||
Duration | 3:48 | 4:46 | ||
| Collect lunar samples | |||
Type (Series) | AS-510 J | AS-511 J | AS-512 J |
| Crew: CDR CMP | A. Worden J. Irwin | K. Mattingly (9) C. Duke | R. Evans H. Schmidt (10) |
Splashdown date | 7 Aug 71 | 27 Apr 72 | 19 Dec 72 |
SA-510 | SA-511 | SA-512 | |
Call sign LM S/N Call sign | Endeavor LM-10 Falcon | Caspar LM-11 Orion | America LM-12 Challenger |
Landing site | Hadley-Appenines | Descartes highlands | Taurus-Littrow valley |
Duration | 6:34 | 7:11 | 7:12 |
Traverse to St. George crater Deploy ALSEP | Deploy LRV Geological traverse to Flag Crater | Deploy LRV Geological traverse to Steno crater | |
Duration | 7:13 | 7:23 | 7:37 |
Duration | 4:20 | 5:40 | 7:16 |
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Duration 00:33 | |||
| Apollo 11 | Land safely, sample the immediate vicinity, set up the EASEP, and then lift off safely |
| Apollo 12 | Demonstrate a precision landing, sample the cratered mare plain, and retrieve part of Surveyor III |
| Apollo 13/14 | Land on at the foot of a ridge in the hummocky terrain of the Fra Mauro Formation, and then trek up the ridge to sample rocks on the rim of 270-metre wide Cone Crater, in the hope of recovering rocks which would date the impact that created the Imbrium Basin |
| Apollo 15 | Land at the first ‘multiple objective’ site, a confined mare plain
just behind the 12,000 foot mountains of the Apennine Range, and in front
of the 1 km wide, 300 metre deep Hadley Rille. The astronauts were to use
the LRV to sample (in order of priority) the base of Mount Hadley Delta
in search of anorthositic rock from the original lunar crust, the rim of the rille to study possible stratification in its wall, and the substructure of the plain in the walls of the craters excavating it |
| Apollo 16 | Seek volcanics in the Central Highlands west of the Kant Plateau, on
a patch of the Cayley Formation set between two 1,500 ft. hills of the Descartes Formation. However, the plains material filling the valley turned out to be a blanket of fluidised ejecta which had ‘sloshed’ out during a basin-forming impact |
| Apollo 17 | Sought evidence of ‘recent’ volcanism on the floor of a valley nestling in a valley on the mountainous rim of the Serenitatis Basin. Although this ‘dark mantle’ material was indeed of volcanic origin, it was ancient |