For a start, 6 Apollos landed on the moon. But on the Earth, the main difference is that the shuttle lands on a conventional runway, the Apollo capsule splash landed in the sea.
a shuttle has wheels an Apollo has no wheels
The Apollo capsule landed by parachute in the ocean. The shuttle lands like an airplane.
An Apollo landing involved a capsule re-entering Earth's atmosphere for a water landing, using parachutes to slow its descent. In contrast, a space shuttle landing was a controlled glide to a runway on land, using wings to navigate and land like an airplane. The space shuttle also had the ability to be reused multiple times.
The Space Shuttle program was named after the Apollo program to honor the Apollo missions that landed astronauts on the Moon. The name Apollo also had historical significance and symbolized the United States' commitment to space exploration.
The space shuttles stopped landing in the ocean in 1981. In response to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which occurred in 1986, all subsequent shuttle missions landed on the runway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
There was no space shuttle on Apollo 11
The Apollo 11 mission, not a space shuttle, was involved in the first lunar landing. The lunar module named "Eagle" carried astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon's surface on July 20, 1969.
The Space Shuttle is a partially reusable system that goes only into Earth orbit and returns. The Apollo vehicle was not reusable and left Earth orbit to visit the moon. The Apollo was launched entirely with liquid fuel rockets. The Space Shuttle is launched with a combination of solid and liquid fuel rockets.
The Apollo 13 astronauts were not on the space shuttle.
Apollo 13 did not use a Space Shuttle. Apollo 13 was in April, 1970. The Space Shuttle was not invented until the '80s. Apollo 13 was launched by Saturn V.
The last space shuttle landing was on July 21, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center to conclude the STS-135 mission, marking the end of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
James A. Lovell Jr. never landed a shuttle. He was an astronaut on Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 missions, which involved landing on the moon and a dramatic return to Earth in the case of Apollo 13, but he did not land a space shuttle.