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NASA manned missions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercury program | 1959-1963 First U.S. crewed program |
| Gemini program | 1961-1966 Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs, 2nd manned space program |
| Apollo program | 1961-1972 Brought first human to the Moon, 12 men walked on moon in total |
| Skylab | 1973-1974 First American space station |
| Apollo-Soyuz | 1975 Joint with Soviet Union |
| Shuttle-Mir Program | 1995-1998 Russian partnership |
| Project Constellation | 2003-2010 Cancelled program to complete international space station, bring humans to the Moon again, and eventually launch a manned mission to Mars |
| Space Shuttle | 1981-2011 First missions in which a spacecraft was reused |
| International Space Station | Joint with Russia, Canada, ESA, and JAXA along with co-operators, ASI and AEB |
| Apollo 1 | 1967 lost three crew members in a fire but never launched |
| Apollo 7 | first manned Apollo flight and the first manned flight of the Saturn IB. It included the first live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft. |
| Apollo 11 | 1969 Lunar Module performed the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility, overcoming navigation errors and computer alarms. Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin performed a single EVA in the direct vicinity of the LM. |
| Apollo 13 | Mission was aborted after an SM oxygen tank exploded on the trip to the moon, causing the landing to be cancelled. After a single loop around the moon, the LM was used as crew "lifeboat" for safe return. |
| Apollo 17 | First night launch, the last manned spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit. Schmitt, a geologist, was the first professional scientist to go on a NASA mission. |
| Saturn V | American human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1966 and 1973. Developed to support the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon. |
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