Guide to Apollo Spacecraft

Apollo Lunar Orbiter The Apollo-spacecraft is the transportation vehicle designed during the NASA program which took humans from the Earth to the surface of the Moon and returned them safely home. The program to design this transport and its utilities was first implemented during the late 1950s and became the central focus of the space race through the 1960s. Use of the Apollo-spacecraft culminated in the cultural and historical event known as the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. NASA continued with the Apollo program for another six years, successfully venturing to the Moon another six times and experiencing one emergency in the form of the famous Apollo 13 mission.

This guide from Bright Hub is designed to give the reader a look inside the mechanisms and design of one of the most advanced technological achievements in the history of mankind. Articles explore the different facets of the Apollo-spacecraft, its inner workings and the different elements that took humans to the nearest celestial body.

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Apollo Lunar Orbiter. (Supplied by NASA; Public Domain; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg)

Apollo Quiz: Are You a Moon Mission Mastermind?

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The Truth About the Pathfinder Mission to Mars

The Pathfinder mission to Mars was a follow-up to the successful Viking mission,which took place two decades earlier. While the Viking mission was an enormous and expensive undertaking...

Apollo Quiz: Are You a Moon Mission Mastermind?

The Apollo spacecraft flew to the Moon nine times. Each mission was different and discovered new data about the Moon. Each also had its own times of drama and excitement--one more than the others. How...

The Truth About the Pathfinder Mission to Mars

The Pathfinder mission to Mars was a follow-up to the successful Viking mission,which took place two decades earlier. While the Viking mission was an enormous and expensive undertaking, the Pathfinder...

The Apollo Program--Developing a Way to the Moon

The moon landing program began with disagreements as to how to achieve the goal of landing men on the moon. NASA finally settled on the technique of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous using two spacecraft. Then development...

Nothing But the Facts About the Apollo Space Program

The Apollo space program accomplished what some consider to be the grandest of human achievements thus far in known history: landing human beings on our moon and bringing them back alive. There were...

The Apollo Program--The Post Lunar Missions

With the lunar program at an end, NASA looked for a way to keep man in space. The solution was a space station. Skylab was orbited and inhabited periodically for most of a year. The final flight of Apollo...

The Soyuz Program (Part 2): Notable Manned Missions

The ill-fated Soyuz manned missions failed because of technological negligence. Space enthusiasts have always wondered why Soyuz 1 crashed and what happened to Soyuz 11. These missions...

Nothing But the Facts About the Apollo Space Program

The Apollo space program accomplished what some consider to be the grandest of human achievements thus far in known history: landing human beings on our moon and bringing them back...