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Saturn V Rocket
- Tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever flown
- 363 Feet Tall, 2812.272694 tonnes
- Same weight as 39 space shuttles
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Launch
- July 16, 1969; 9:32 a.m. EDT
- Launch Pad 39A
- Saturn-V AS-506
- High Bay 1
- Mobile Launcher Platform-1
- Firing Room 1
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Orbit
- Altitude: 118.65 miles
- Inclination: 32.521 degrees
- Orbits: 30 revolutions
- Duration: eight days, three hours, 18 min, 35 seconds
- Distance: 953,054 miles
- Lunar Location: Sea of Tranquility
- Lunar Coordinates: .71 degrees north, 23.63 degrees east
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Moon
- Radius 1,737.4 km
- Distance to earth 384,400 km
- Gravity: 1.62 m/s²
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Return
- July 24, 1969; 12:50 p.m. EDT Pacific Ocean
- Recovery Ship: USS Hornet
Miscellaneous
All Apollo Flights
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Apollo Flight 7
- Date: Oct. 11-22, 1968
- Mission: Tested the Command Module
- Crew: Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham
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Apollo Flight 8
- Date: Dec. 21-27, 1968
- Mission: First to orbit the moon
- Crew: Borman, Lovell, Anders
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Apollo Flight 9
- Date: March 3-13, 1969
- Mission: Tested the Lunar Module
- Crew: McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart
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Apollo Flight 10
- Date: May 18-26, 1969
- Mission: Tested the Lunar Module around the moon
- Crew: Cernan, Young, Stafford
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Apollo Flight 11
- Date: July 16-24, 1969
- Mission: First to land on the moon
- Crew: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
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Apollo Flight 12
- Date: Nov. 14-24, 1969
- Mission: Landed on the moon
- Crew: Conrad, Bean, Gordon
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Apollo Flight 13
- Date: April 11-17, 1970
- Mission: Was supposed to land on the moon but had a malfunction
- Crew: Lovell, Swigert, Haise
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Apollo Flight 14
- Date: Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971
- Mission: Landed on the moon
- Crew: Shepard, Mitchell, Roosa
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Apollo Flight 15
- Date: July 26-Aug. 7, 1971
- Mission: Landed on the moon
- Crew: Scott, Irwin, Worden
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Apollo Flight 16
- Date: April 16-27, 1972
- Mission: Landed on the moon
- Crew: Young, Duke, Mattingly
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Apollo Flight 17
- Date: Dec. 7-19, 1972
- Mission: Landed on the moon
- Crew: Cernan, Schmitt, Evans