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Apollo program

Also known as Project Apollo, Apollo, Apollo space program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S. Congress on May 25, 1961.

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The Apollo program was a NASA-led American spaceflight effort that successfully landed humans on the Moon in 1969, fulfilling President Kennedy's goal announced in 1961. It represents a landmark achievement in space exploration and remains historically significant as humanity's first crewed lunar landing.

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Vinony's link graph records 3,144 inbound references to Apollo program, and connects out to Apollo 10, geology of the Moon and Apollo Command and Service Module.

It is catalogued under topics including 1960s in the United States, 1970s in the United States and American lunar exploration program.

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Instance of: project
Has part: Apollo 17
Named after: Apollo
Country: United States
Operator: NASA
Image: Apollo CSM lunar orbit.jpg

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Commons category: Apollo program
topic's main category: Category:Apollo program
topic has template: Template:Apollo program
Commons gallery: Project Apollo
has goal: Moon landing
has list: list of people who have walked on the Moon
uses: Apollo Lunar Module
start time: 1961-00-00
end time: 1999-00-00
capital cost: 25400000000
start point: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34
native label: Apollo program
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Encyclopedic overview

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. Approximately 650 million people worldwide watched this first landing on television. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last, Apollo 17, in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve people walked on the Moon.

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