What was the Apollo Program?
Apollo was a NASA program that sent people to the moon. There were 11 Apollo flights. The first Apollo flight was in 1968. The first four flights tested the spacecraft. Six of the other seven flights landed on the moon. The first moon landing took place in 1969. The last moon landing was in 1972. Twelve astronauts walked on the moon. They studied the lunar surface. They collected moon rocks and brought them back to Earth. What Spacecraft Were Used for the Apollo Program? NASA built the Apollo Command Module for this program. It had room for three astronauts. The crew area had about as much room as a car. They rode in it on the way to the moon and back. Another spacecraft, the Lunar Module, was used for landing on the moon. This spacecraft carried two astronauts. It took them from orbit around the moon to the moon’s surface. The Lunar Module also carried them back into the moon’s orbit to the Command Module. Two types of rockets were used for Apollo, the Saturn IB and the Saturn V (5).
