Mercury Flights
1960: MA-1 3 min partial success 1961: MA-2 18 min successful MA-3 7 min aborted MA-4 1 h 49 min successful MR-3 15 min Shepard Jr MR-4 16 min Grisson 1962 MA-6 4 h 55 min Glenn 3 orbits MA-7 4 h 56 min Carpenter 3 orbits MA-8 9 h 13 min Schirra 6 orbits MA-9 34 h 20 min Cooper 22 orbits Mercury 13: Woman astronauts First USSR & US Woman in space Preparation 1:Project Ranger
Ranger 3: miss the moon
Hit the moon, But no pictures Rangers 8 and 9 Ranger flights
Ranger 1 Aug 23, 1961 Agena fails to reignite Ranger 2 Nov 18, 1961 Agena fails to reignite Ranger 3 Jan 26, 1962 Agena fires too long Ranger 4 Apr 23, 1962 Timer fails on probe Ranger 5 Oct 8, 1962 probe’s solar panel fails Ranger 6 Jan 30, 1964 First Moon impact, no pictures Ranger 7 Jul 28, 1964 Impacts Moon, pictures Ranger 8 Feb 17, 1965 Impacts Moon, pictures Ranger 9 Mar 21, 1965 Impacts Moon, pictures Preparation 2: Project Orbiter Lunar surface features Lunar Orbiter Flights
Lunar orbiter 1 Aug 10, 1966 First US probe to orbit the Moon Lunar orbiter 2 Nov 6, 1966 Examine 13 Apollo sites Lunar orbiter 3 Feb 4, 1967 Completes Apollo site search Lunar orbiter 4 May 4, 1967 Image Moon’s south pole Lunar orbiter 5 Aug 1, 1967 Complete mapping of the Moon Preparation 3: Project Surveyor Surveyor flights
Surveyor 1 May 30, 1966 First US soft lunar landing Surveyor 2 Sep 20, 1966 crashed Surveyor 3 Apr 17, 1967 bearing test Surveyor 4 Jul 14, 1967 crashed Surveyor 5 Sep 8, 1967 chemical soil test Surveyor 6 Nov 7, 1967 First US lift off from Moon Surveyor 7 Jan 7, 1968 highland landing Luna program Project Gemini Astronaut training Rendezvous and docking Space walk (extra vehicular activity) Gemini flights
Gemini 1 4/08/64 unmanned compatibility test Gemini 2 1/19/65 unmanned reentry test Gemini 3 3/23/65 test flight Gemini 4 6/03/65 first EVA Gemini 5 8/21/65 long duration flight Gemini 6 12/15/65 rendezvous with Gemini 7 Gemini 7 12/04/65 long duration flight Gemini 8 3/16/66 docking, terminated Gemini 9 6/03/66 rendezvous EVA Gemini 10 7/18/66 docking two EVAs Gemini 11 9/12/66 docking, EVA Gemini 12 11/11/66 docking three EVAs Apollo space mission objectives Mission chart Apollo command module Apollo lunar module Apollo space craft Saturn V rocket Turning points Apollo 11:Historic moment Landing sites Lunar surface experiments ALSEP