The explosion happened on April 13, 1970 and the crew returned to Earth safely on April 17, 1970.
Apollo 1 was not an actual program, it was a scheduled mission as part of the Apollo Program. Apollo 1 had a scheduled launch date of February 21, 1967.
July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
Apollo 11 launched on July 16th 1969, with Eagle, it's lunar module, landing on the moon on July 20th 1969.
"Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST" -- Wikipedia
As Kennedy had set a date of landing a man on the moon, and to bring him back safely to the earth by 31/12 1969. So Apollo 11 was that crowning moment for N.A.S.A.
Apollo 1 was not an actual program, it was a scheduled mission as part of the Apollo Program. Apollo 1 had a scheduled launch date of February 21, 1967.
July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
Apollo 11 launched on July 16th 1969, with Eagle, it's lunar module, landing on the moon on July 20th 1969.
As of now, the best-known and most historically important US space program would be the Apollo missions, from 1967 to 1972. Collectively, they produced the following milestones:The first manned orbit of the moon. (Apollo 10)The first men on the moon. (Apollo 11)The first manned vehicle on the moon. (Apollo 15)The last men on the moon to date. (Apollo 17)The most famous space disaster with a happy ending. (Apollo 13)What at the time was the most famous space-related disaster with a tragic ending. (Apollo 1, since superseded by the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters)
"Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST" -- Wikipedia
As Kennedy had set a date of landing a man on the moon, and to bring him back safely to the earth by 31/12 1969. So Apollo 11 was that crowning moment for N.A.S.A.
Apollo 13 did not crash.
Edwin Aldrin and the rest of the Apollo 11 space crew landed on the moon on the 21st of July
The first seven were the first seven American Men in Space flight- not a memorial or posthumous angle. There were No in-flight fatal accidents in the Mercury or Gemini programs, and only one ( killing three Astros= Grissom, White , and Chafee) in a ground test that caught fire-in the Apollo program. There were, to date two ( All hands) fatal accidents in the space shuttle program, involving the shuttles CHALLENGER and COLUMBIA. Mercury program was accident-free.
Theren was no Apollo 5 manned mission .
Apollo 11 was launched on 16/7/1969.
Launch date of Apollo 7 is 11th of October 1968, 15:02:45 UTC.