"That's one small step for
man. One giant leap for mankind."
- Neil Armstrong
The national effort that enabled Astronaut Neil Armstrong to speak
those words as he stepped onto the lunar surface, fulfilled a dream
as old as humanity. But Project Apollo's goals went beyond landing
Americans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth:
- To establish the technology to meet other national interests
in space.
- To achieve preeminence in space for the United States.
- To carry out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon.
- To develop man's capability to work in the lunar environment.
The five films that make up the Apollo Manned Moon
Mission collection have a total run time of 2 hours 21 minutes.
Flight of Apollo 11 (The Eagle Has Landed) (1969)
- Apollo 11 was the first mission in which humans walked on the
lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 20 July 1969 two astronauts
(Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin E. "Buzz"
Aldrin Jr.) landed in Mare Tranquilitatis (the Sea of Tranquility)
on the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service
Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Michael Collins) continued in lunar
orbit. During their stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific
experiments, took photographs, and collected lunar samples. The
LM took off from the Moon on 21 July and the astronauts returned
to Earth on 24 July.
Here are some films clips of Apollo 11:
 
Flight of Apollo 12 (Pinpoint for Science) - Apollo
12 was the second mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface
and returned to Earth. On 19 November 1969 two astronauts (Apollo
12 Commander Charles P. "Pete" Conrad and LM Pilot Alan L. Bean)
landed in Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) on the Moon in the
Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with
CM pilot Richard F. Gordon) continued in lunar orbit. During their
stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific experiments,
took photographs, examined the nearby Surveyor 3 spacecraft which
had landed on the Moon 2 1/2 years earlier and removed pieces for
later examination on Earth, and collected lunar samples on two moonwalk
EVA's. The LM took off from the Moon on 20 November and the astronauts
returned to Earth on 24 November.
Here are some films clips of Apollo 12:
 
 
Flight of Apollo 15 (In The Mountains of the Moon)
- Apollo 15 was the fourth mission in which humans walked on the
lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 30 July 1971 two astronauts
(Apollo 15 Commander David R. Scott and LM pilot James B. Irwin)
landed in the Hadley Rille/Apennines region of the Moon in the Lunar
Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM
pilot Alfred M. Worden) continued in lunar orbit. During their stay
on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific experiments, took
photographs, and collected lunar samples. The LM took off from the
Moon on 2 August and the astronauts returned to Earth on 7 August.
Here are some films clips of Apollo 15:
 
 
Flight of Apollo 16 (Nothing So Hidden) -Apollo 16
was the fifth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface
and returned to Earth. On 21 April 1972 two astronauts (Apollo 16
Commander John W. Young and LM pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr.) landed
in the Descartes region of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while
the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Thomas K. Mattingly,
II) continued in lunar orbit. During their stay on the Moon, the
astronauts set up scientific experiments, took photographs, and
collected lunar samples. The LM took off from the Moon on 24 April
and the astronauts returned to Earth on 27 April.
Here are some films clips of Apollo 16:
 
 
Flight of Apollo 17 (On The Shoulders of Giants) -
Apollo 17 was the sixth and last Apollo mission in which humans
walked on the lunar surface. On 11 December 1972 two astronauts
(Commander Eugene A. Cernan and LM pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, the
first scientist on the Moon) landed in the Taurus-Littrow region
of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service
Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Ronald E. Evans) continued in lunar
orbit. During their stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific
experiments, took photographs, and collected lunar samples. The
LM took off from the Moon on 14 December and the astronauts returned
to Earth on 19 December.
Here are some films clips of Apollo 17:
 
 
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