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Apollo program
- A series of space flights undertaken by the United States with a goal of landing a man on the moon . Each Apollo flight carried a crew of three astronauts . The first lunar landing by humans was achieved by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. Five other successful lunar landings followed. The Apollo program ended in 1974. It was named after the Greek god of learning, Apollo .
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon.
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And without a pressing geopolitical threat, Congress may be unwilling to spend more on space exploration, as it did during the 1960s with the Apollo program, Forczyk said.
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They will reach the highest Earth orbit since the Apollo program.
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This new crop of moonwalkers — the first since last century’s Apollo program — will descend to the lunar surface in a Starship, at least the first couple times.
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Apollo program that put the first humans on the moon.
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The U.S. bowed out of the lunar landscape in 1972 after NASA’s Apollo program put 12 astronauts on the surface .
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