Once both modules were known to function, Apollo 10 tested the equipment in the moon's orbit. During the eight-day mission beginning on May 18, 1969, Tom Stafford, commander, and Gene Cernan ...

Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks, took photos, performed experiments, planted flags, and then came home. But those stays didn't establish a lasting human ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, ...

That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced achievements before a lunar landing was feasible: astronauts ...