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Across 22 uncrewed development flights and 11 crewed missions, Apollo joined enormous , purpose-built spacecraft, global tracking, and increasingly ambitious crews into the first sustained human exploration of another world.
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34 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 7 launch systems and shared hardware records.
Saturn V was NASA's Apollo Moon rocket.
The Apollo command and service module was the crew spacecraft used for Apollo Earth-orbit, lunar-orbit, lunar-landing support, Skylab ferry, and Apollo-Soyuz missions.
The Apollo Lunar Module was the two-stage spacecraft that carried astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface and back to the command module.
America and Challenger were the command-and-service and lunar modules flown on Apollo 17.
This cutaway illustration shows the Apollo Spacecraft with callouts of the major components.
Apollo's launch escape system was a tower-mounted, three-motor safety assembly sized to pull the command module clear of a failing Saturn during the pad and early-ascent envelope.
Representative NASA flight photograph of the Apollo 9 lunar module in Earth orbit. It depicts real Apollo LM hardware but not this exact mission, lunar module, serial, configuration, or flight article.
Apollo LM-1 supported Apollo 5 in the Apollo program.
Casper and Orion supported Apollo 16 in the Apollo program.
Charlie Brown and Snoopy supported Apollo 10 in the Apollo program.
Columbia and Eagle supported Apollo 11 in the Apollo program.
Endeavour and Falcon supported Apollo 15 in the Apollo program.
Gumdrop and Spider supported Apollo 9 in the Apollo program.
Kitty Hawk and Antares supported Apollo 14 in the Apollo program.