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|+ The Apollo missions and the crew members of the manned missions&thinsp;<ref name=MissionsTable/><ref name=KSC-Manned/><ref name=KSC-Unmanned/>
! align=center width=60px |Mission<br/>Identifier
! align=center width=85px |Launch<br/>date
! align=center width=60px |Launch<br/>rocket
! align=center width=183px|Crew
! align=center width=324px|Brief Mission Description
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| AS-201
| Feb. 26, 1966
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| 36 minute suborbital test
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| AS-203
| July 5, 1966
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| 88 minute test at Earth orbital altitude
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| AS-202
| Aug. 25, 1966
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| 93 minute test at Earth orbital altitude 
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| AS-204<br/>(Apollo 1)
| None
| Saturn 1B
| Virgil Grissom, Edward White,<br/>Roger Chaffee
| Fire destroyed the Command Module and killed the three crew members during a launch pad test.
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| Apollo 4
| Nov. 9, 1967
| Saturn V
| Unmanned
| 8 hour and 37 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately six orbits)
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| Apollo 5
| Jan. 22, 1968
| Saturn 1B
| Unmanned
| 11 hour and 10 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately eight orbits)
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| Apollo 6
| Apr. 4, 1968
| Saturn V
| Unmanned
| 10 hour and 22 minute test in Earth orbit (approximately seven orbits)
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| Apollo 7
| Oct. 11, 1968
| Saturn 1B
| Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele,<br/>Walter Cunningham
| 163 Earth orbits of the Earth during a successful, fully manned test of almost 11 days (longer then a journey to the Moon and back).
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| Apollo 8
| Dec. 21, 1968
| Saturn V
| Frank Borman, Jim Lovell,<br/>William Anders
| First journey to Moon and back. Orbited the Moon ten times over a 20 hour period. The crew members were the first humans to see the far side of the moon.
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| Apollo 9
| Mar. 3, 1969
| Saturn V
| James McDivitt, David Scott,<br/>Russell Schweickart
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| Apollo 10
| May 18, 1969
| Saturn V
| Thomas Stafford, John Young,<br/>Eugene Cernan
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| Apollo 11
| July 16, 1969
| Saturn V
| Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin,<br/>Michael Collins
| First lunar landing
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| Apollo 12
| Nov. 14, 1969
| Saturn V
| Charles Conrad, Alan Bean,<br/>Richard Gordon
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| Apollo 13
| Apr. 11, 1970
| Saturn V
| Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert,<br/>Fred Haise
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| Apollo 14
| Jan. 31, 1971
| Saturn V
| Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa,<br/>Edgar Mitchell
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| Apollo 15
| July 26, 1971
| Saturn V
| David Scott, Alfred Worden,<br/>James Irwin
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| Apollo 16
| Apr. 16, 1972
| Saturn V
| John Young, Ken Mattingly,<br/>Charles Duke
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| Apollo 17
| Dec. 7, 1972
| Saturn V
| Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans,<br/>Harrison Schmitt
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==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=MissionsTable>[http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo9/index.html Human Spaceflight] From the NASA website.</ref>
<ref name=KSC-Manned>[http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/flight-summary.htm Kennedy Space Center Apollo Manned Flight Summaries] From the Kennedy Space Center website.</ref>
<ref name=KSC-Unmanned>[http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollosat-unmanned.htm Unmanned Apollo-Saturn Missions] From the Kennedy Space Center website.</ref>
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