Canceled Apollo missions, the Glossary
Several planned missions of the Apollo crewed Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled, for reasons which included changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, hardware delays, and budget limitations.[1]
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Air & Space/Smithsonian
Air & Space/Smithsonian is a quarterly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Amy Shira Teitel
Amy Shira Teitel is a Canadian author, popular science writer, historian, and YouTuber.
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Apollo 1
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 1 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 10
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 10 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 11 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 12
Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 12 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 13 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 14
Apollo 14 (January 31February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 14 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 15
Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 15 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 16 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 17
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 17 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 4
Apollo 4 (November 9, 1967), also known as SA-501, was the uncrewed first test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the rocket that eventually took astronauts to the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 4 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 5
Apollo 5 (launched January 22, 1968), also known as AS-204, was the uncrewed first flight of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) that would later carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 5 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 6
Apollo 6 (April 4, 1968), also known as AS-502, was the third and final uncrewed flight in the United States' Apollo Program and the second test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 6 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 7
Apollo 7 (October 11–22, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that had killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 7 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 8
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 8 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo 9
Apollo 9 (March 313, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo 9 are Apollo program missions.
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Apollo Applications Program
The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program. Canceled Apollo missions and Apollo Applications Program are Apollo program.
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Apollo command and service module
The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
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Apollo Lunar Module
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program.
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Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
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Apollo–Soyuz
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975.
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Battleship (rocketry)
In rocketry, battleship was a term used during the design of the Saturn V to refer to a heavy duty rocket stage which was used to test configuration and integration of a launch vehicle.
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Boilerplate (spaceflight)
A boilerplate spacecraft, also known as a mass simulator, is a nonfunctional craft or payload that is used to test various configurations and basic size, load, and handling characteristics of rocket launch vehicles. Canceled Apollo missions and boilerplate (spaceflight) are Apollo program.
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Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman.
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Censorinus (crater)
Censorinus is a 3.8 km lunar impact crater located on a rise to the southeast of the Mare Tranquillitatis.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Chief of the Astronaut Office
The Chief of the Astronaut Office is the most senior leadership position for active astronauts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Copernicus (lunar crater)
Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum.
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Cradle of Aviation Museum
The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation.
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David Scott
David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
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Deke Slayton
Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts.
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Descartes Highlands
The Descartes Highlands is an area of lunar highlands located on the near side that served as the landing site of the American Apollo 16 mission in early 1972.
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Don Lind
Don Leslie Lind (May 18, 1930 – August 30, 2022) was an American scientist, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut.
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Donn F. Eisele
Donn Fulton Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 1, 1987) (Colonel USAF) was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and later a NASA astronaut.
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Ed White (astronaut)
Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell (September 17, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut.
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Encyclopedia Astronautica
The Encyclopedia Astronautica is a reference web site on space travel.
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Far side of the Moon
The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon's orbit.
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Fra Mauro formation
The Fra Mauro formation (or Fra Mauro Highlands) is a formation on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
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Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman.
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Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Fred Haise
Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot.
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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part 1998 HBO television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks and Michael Bostick.
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Gassendi (crater)
Gassendi is a large lunar impact crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum.
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George Low
George Michael Low (born Georg Michael Löw, June 10, 1926 – July 17, 1984) was an administrator at NASA and the 14th president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Gerald Carr (astronaut)
Gerald Paul "Jerry" Carr (August 22, 1932August 26, 2020) was an American mechanical and aeronautical engineer, United States Marine Corps officer, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut.
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Grand Tour program
The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System.
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Grumman
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft.
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Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.
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Hadley–Apennine
Hadley–Apennine is a region on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed landing on the Moon and the first of the "J-missions", in July 1971.
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Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
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Hyginus (crater)
Hyginus is a lunar caldera located at the east end of the Sinus Medii.
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Jack R. Lousma
Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former naval aviator, NASA astronaut, and politician.
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James Irwin
James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot.
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James McDivitt
James Alton McDivitt Jr. (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs.
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Joe Engle
Joe Henry Engle (August 26, 1932 – July 10, 2024) was an American pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.
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John Young (astronaut)
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer.
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Johnson Space Center
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.
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Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.
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Littrow (crater)
Littrow is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, on the east edge of Mare Serenitatis.
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Long Island
Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.
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Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972.
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Marius Hills
The Marius Hills are a set of volcanic domes located in Oceanus Procellarum on Earth's Moon.
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Medium Earth orbit
A medium Earth orbit (MEO) is an Earth-centered orbit with an altitude above a low Earth orbit (LEO) and below a high Earth orbit (HEO) – between above sea level.
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Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island is a peninsula, commonly referred to as an island, in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Michael Cassutt
Michael Joseph Cassutt (born April 13, 1954) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author.
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Mons Hadley
Mons Hadley is a massif in the northern portion of the Montes Apenninus, a range in the northern hemisphere of the Moon.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
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NERVA
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades.
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Oceanus Procellarum
Oceanus Procellarum (from lit) is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Moon.
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Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
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Paul J. Weitz
Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 22, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice.
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Pearlington, Mississippi
Pearlington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on U.S. Route 90, along the Pearl River, at the Louisiana state line.
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Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
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Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon Jr. (October 5, 1929 – November 6, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Rocketdyne H-1
The Rocketdyne H-1 was a thrust liquid-propellant rocket engine burning LOX and RP-1.
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Roger B. Chaffee
Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.
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Rusty Schweickart
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive.
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S-IC-T
S-IC-T is a Saturn V first stage, S-IC rocket, of the three stage rocket system. Canceled Apollo missions and s-IC-T are Apollo program.
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S-IVB
The S-IVB (pronounced "S-four-B") was the third stage on the Saturn V and second stage on the Saturn IB launch vehicles. Canceled Apollo missions and s-IVB are Apollo program.
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Saturn I
The Saturn I was a rocket designed as the United States' first medium lift launch vehicle for up to low Earth orbit payloads. Canceled Apollo missions and Saturn I are Apollo program.
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Saturn IB
The Saturn IB(also known as the uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program. Canceled Apollo missions and Saturn IB are Apollo program.
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Saturn V
The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon.
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Schroter's Valley
Schroter's Valley, frequently known by the Latinized name Vallis Schröteri, is a sinuous valley or rille on the surface of the near side of the Moon.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
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Skylab 3
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab.
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Skylab Rescue
The Skylab Rescue Mission (also SL-R)" " NASA, 24 August 1973.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
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Space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.
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Stuart Roosa
Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
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Surveyor 3
Surveyor 3 is the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967 and the second to successfully land.
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Surveyor 7
Surveyor 7 was sent to the Moon in 1968 on a scientific and photographic mission as the seventh and last lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program.
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Taurus–Littrow
Taurus–Littrow is a lunar valley located on the near side at the coordinates. Canceled Apollo missions and Taurus–Littrow are Apollo program.
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Television Infrared Observation Satellite
Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (TIROS) is a series of early weather satellites launched by the United States, beginning with TIROS-1 in 1960.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tsiolkovskiy (crater)
Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon.
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Tycho (lunar crater)
Tycho is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).
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Vance D. Brand
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is a retired American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Vehicle Assembly Building
The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. Canceled Apollo missions and vehicle Assembly Building are Apollo program.
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Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (March 16, 1932 – January 3, 2023) was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys.
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William B. Lenoir
William Benjamin Lenoir (March 14, 1939 – August 26, 2010) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut.
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William Pogue
William Reid "Bill" Pogue (January 23, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American astronaut and pilot who served in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a fighter pilot and test pilot, and reached the rank of colonel.
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Zond program
Zond (lit) was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970.
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See also
Apollo program missions
- AS-201
- AS-202
- Apollo 1
- Apollo 10
- Apollo 11
- Apollo 12
- Apollo 13
- Apollo 14
- Apollo 15
- Apollo 16
- Apollo 17
- Apollo 4
- Apollo 5
- Apollo 6
- Apollo 7
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 9
- Canceled Apollo missions
- List of Apollo missions
Cancelled space missions
- Advanced Gemini
- Axe Apollo sub-orbital spaceflights
- Big Gemini
- Blue Gemini
- Canceled Apollo missions
- Canceled Space Shuttle missions
- Cancelled Space Shuttle missions
- DearMoon project
- Félix I
- First Lunar Outpost
- List of NASA cancellations
- Mercury-Atlas 10
- Project Harvest Moon
- Space Capsule Recovery Experiment II
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions
Also known as Apollo 19, Apollo 20, Apollo 21, Apollo 22, Apollo XIX, Apollo XX, Cancelled Apollo missions.
, Hadley–Apennine, Harrison Schmitt, Houston, Hyginus (crater), Jack R. Lousma, James Irwin, James McDivitt, Joe Engle, John Young (astronaut), Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Littrow (crater), Long Island, Lunar Roving Vehicle, Marius Hills, Medium Earth orbit, Merritt Island, Florida, Michael Cassutt, Mons Hadley, NASA, National Air and Space Museum, Neil Armstrong, NERVA, Oceanus Procellarum, Office of Management and Budget, Paul J. Weitz, Pearlington, Mississippi, Pete Conrad, Philadelphia, Popular Science, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Richard Nixon, Rocketdyne H-1, Roger B. Chaffee, Rusty Schweickart, S-IC-T, S-IVB, Saturn I, Saturn IB, Saturn V, Schroter's Valley, Skylab, Skylab 3, Skylab Rescue, Smithsonian Institution, Soviet Union, Space Shuttle, Space station, Stuart Roosa, Surveyor 3, Surveyor 7, Taurus–Littrow, Television Infrared Observation Satellite, Time (magazine), Tsiolkovskiy (crater), Tycho (lunar crater), Vance D. Brand, Vehicle Assembly Building, Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham, William B. Lenoir, William Pogue, Zond program.