8.4K views · 92 reactions | Apollo: Missions To The Moon shares rare NASA footage and interviews that capture the mission to land Americans on the moon. Here's the story about how this documentary came together. | National Geographic TV | Facebook

On October 27, 1961, Apollo 7 became the first manned flight, but the launch of the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo 11 mission that put the first human on the Moon, in July 1969, 32 Apollo flights were made in total, the last one was apollo 17 December 19, 1972, of the missions only one failed and that was Apollo 1 and 13 The Apollo Program was a manned space program developed by the United States in the 1960s as part of the space race with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The project began i

Fifty years ago today, on Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time when the ascent stage of Apollo 15's Lunar Module Falcon departed the surface of the Moon with astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin onboard. This clip combines the televised initial departure with onboard 16mm film, which includes views of the landing site and the descent stage, as well as of Hadley Rille. To highlight the all-Air Force crew, Al Worden in the orbiting Command Module Endeavour played the U.S.

48K views · 1K reactions | The Apollo program was one of the most expensive programs carried out by NASA. Learn more about this program through this video! #Unacademy #Education | Unacademy | Facebook

We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing after the Soviet Union took the lead in the 'Space Race'. We explore the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin. We look at how Werner von Braun, a former rocket scientist of the Third Reich, playe

From October 2018 through December 2022, NASA will look at the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon. | NASA History