A brief history of NASA's Apollo program
People around the country and the world are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first crewed mission to the moon, this week. However, the journey to the moon started years before Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. There was some naming inconsistency among the early Apollo missions, as some were renamed later, but here’s what you need to know about each Apollo mission, both before and after the mission that landed on the moon. […]
