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4 days ago · Apollo 17: launch. Apollo 17 lifting off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, atop a Saturn V three-stage rocket, December 7, 1972. (more) Watch Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt walking and singing on the Moon in December 1972.
2 days ago · Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth.
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- 6 days, 3 hours, 42 seconds
- December 21, 1968, 12:51:00 UTC
- Saturn V SA-503
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5 days ago · The first launch of astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule is now set for May 21.
1 day ago · A helium leak pushed back a planned launch to May 25. Boeing's program that would shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been plagued with problems.
17 hours ago · By PA News Agency. Ed Dwight (Chris Pizzello/AP) America’s first black astronaut candidate has finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’s rocket company. Ed Dwight was a US Air Force pilot when President John F Kennedy championed him as a candidate for Nasa’s early astronaut corps. But he was not picked for the ...
2 days ago · ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher will announce the first two astronauts from the 2022 ESA astronaut class who will embark on long-duration missions to the International Space Station. This announcement will take place on the first day of the Space Council, held in Brussels on 22 and 23 May 2024.
4 days ago · How do you get ready for flying to the moon? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead of their historic liftoff in 2025 to see what living in the Orion spacecraft is like.
