When did apollo 8 launch?
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The space vehicle was launched at 7:51:00 a.m. EST on December 21, 1968, and was inserted into a 103 by 98 nautical mile parking orbit. The launch vehicle was a three-stage Saturn V and the spacecraft was a standard block II command and service module configuration. A lunar module test article was mounted in the spacecraft/launch vehicle adapter for mass loading purposes.
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In July 1969 Armstrong, as commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, became the first person to set foot on the Moon.
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For Apollo 15 it was 78 hours and 31 minutes from launch to lunar orbit insertion. That is about three and a quarter days. That was typical for Apollo, a little over 3 days.\n\nThe recent Pluto mission, New Horizons, took about 9 hours to pass the orbit of the Moon. But of course it didn't stop at the Moon. Stopping would have required saving some of the rocket fuel that got it up to speed to slow down again at the Moon, which would have meant a slower trip.
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The first SHUTTLE launch was April 12, 1981. STS-1.\n\nSomehting interesting about that launch: The Shuttle's external tank and solid rocket boosters were painted all white. Initially this was OK, but rocket science is all about cutting weight where you can on a rocket. The paint's weight was enourmous, thus they began leaving the external tank its basic orange color that we all know today.\n\nFor those above who think the shuttle launched before 1981, you are mistaken. The Shuttle is the nickname for the STS or Space Transportation System. The Saturn rockets that launched during the Apollo missions were not shuttles. And even if you considered them "shuttles" they were not the first either. The first manned rocket (to make it to space) was a Soviet Soyuz capsule on top of an R-7 rocket manned by Yuri Gagarin.
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There have been six.\n\n-- Apollo 11: July 16, 1969.\n(First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.)\n-- Apollo 12: November 14, 1969.\n-- Apollo 14: January 31, 1971.\n(The infamous Alan Shepard walks on the Moon.)\n-- Apollo 15: July 26, 1971.\n(First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.)\n-- Apollo 16: April 16, 1972.\n-- Apollo 17: December 7, 1972.\n(Last Apollo mission.)\n\nYes, all the landings were done within a 2-1/2 year period. Back then, there was a LOT of excitement about actually landing on the surface. But ever since then, the level of interest has been waning, and thus NASA could not justify the tremendous cost of a lunar expedition to Congress to appropriate the necessary funds. More focus has been going into unmanned exploration and surveying, with the bulk going into more practical Earth-orbit missions.\n\n(You'll notice that Apollo 13 is missing from the list above. If you've read the book "Lost Moon" or seen the movie "Apollo 13", then you know exactly why. ^.^)
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I would say the race began in earnest in 1957, when the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth.  Some say it began in 1945 when Russia and the US competed to acquire German rocket scientists and engineers after WWII.
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Launched on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, and was the first orbital space flight.
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"We didn't start the Fire" Billy Joel is naming phrases of historical events and scandals of the 1950's to the 1990's. The phrase Moonshot bascially is talking about the U.S. Space Program from when J. F. Kennedy announced "the U.S. will put a man on the moon before the end of the decade" (right after Alan Sheppard's or John Glenn's flight ) in 1961 to the landing on the Moon in July 1969 by Apollo 11.
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"At 11:38 a.m., the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.\n\n\nAt first, everything seemed to go well. However, 73 seconds after lift-off, Mission....."
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July 20 1969....was the first time americans went to the moon. Neil armstrong and his fellow astronaut Edwin Aldrin landed at 4:17 Pm and Neil took his first step on the moon at 10:56 Pm. Hope this is enough information for you!
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The Soviet Luna program had launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to fly past the moon on January 4, 1959. Its successor, Luna 2, was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, while Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon on October 7, 1959. Luna 9, launched by the USSR on February 3, 1966, performed the first "soft landing" on the moon; and Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon on April 3, 1966.\n\nThere have been no Russian cosmonauts on the surface.\n\nFollow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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A grand total of 12 people have walked on the moon, in the mission Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 (two people each), between 1969 and 1972.  No one since.
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There have been a total of 12 people who have set foot on the moon, 2 each from Apollo 11,12,14,15,16 and 17 missions respectively. \n\nThe 12 are as follows:\nNeil Armstrong\nEdwin "Buzz" Aldrin\nPete Conrad\nAlan Bean\nAlan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell\nDave Scott\nJim Irwin\nJohn Young\nCharles Duke\nGene Cernan\nHarrison Scmitt
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The Saturn V rocket was launched 13 times.  A total of 15 were built.  Apollo 4 and 6 were unmanned test-launches, and Apollo 8-17 were lander tests and flights to the moon.  One last Saturn V was used to launch Skylab-1 in 1973.  Two saturn V's were never used, and many of thier pieces are on display.
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The First Flight was March, 1974 \nand it Entered Service January, 1979
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I believe was the last manned space flight before the Space Shuttle program was in 1975.  The 1975 mission, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), was a rendevous mission between US and Russion manned space craft.  After this mission, the Shuttle program took center stage with its first launch in 1981
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"Moon Hoax" proponents claim that the Moon landings of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 and subsequent missions never happened, but were instead staged and pre-filmed on Earth. The idea grew significantly in popularity after the release of the movie Capricorn One (1978), which portrays a NASA attempt to fake a landing on Mars, implausibly using a Lunar Module, designed to land on the airless Moon, on a planet with an atmosphere.\n\nIt is possible that a brief sequence in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) which appears to show a Moon landing being simulated, may coincide with some of the first suggestions of the landings being faked. British playwright Desmond Lowden wrote a play called The News-Benders in 1967 in which all major technological advances since 1945 were shown to have been simulated; the play was televised in January 1968 and showed a Moon landing faked with models.\n\nThe now-defunct Flat Earth Society lodged one of the earliest complaints about the veracity of the Apollo missions (Schadewald 1980) (also see the external link to the Flat Earth Society). They claimed the various "earthrise" photos from Apollo 8, with the Moon in the foreground and the Earth in the background, were fakes. The primary basis of their claim was that it did not square with their belief that the Earth is flat (Newsweek 1969).\n\nIn his book A Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar orbit mission in December 1968, such conspiratorial stories were in circulation as rumoured facts. The first published attempt to establish such claims as factual was Bill Kaysing's self-published book We Never Went to the Moon in 1974 (Plait 2002:157), although perhaps the best known is NASA Mooned America by Ralph Rene.\n\nHoax skeptics claim that the Moon landing hoax accusations are conspiracy theories — claims that conspirators in the possession of secret knowledge are misleading the public in pursuit of a hidden agenda. In the Moon Hoax's case the hidden agenda is the United States of America's eagerness to land on the moon before their space race rivals, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), who had beaten them into orbit by launching Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, and achieved several other "firsts" in space exploration.\n\nTo know more about Issues and controversies please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations