Once it is launched from Earth and reaches space, its mission is to
accurately navigate to the moon, soft land on it, and begin roving.
Eight space missions orbited the moon, carrying 24 astronauts. All were men from the USA who traveled to the moon as part of NASA's Apollo program during the period from 1968 to 1972. Six missions landed on the moon, and their 12 astronauts walked on its surface. No man walked on the moon more than once. And nobody except the 24 astronauts on the eight Apollo missions has ever been farther into space than "low earth orbit".
There were 6 separate successful moon landing missions, carrying 12 men to the surface.
There are stories that the Soviets tried Moon landings that were unsuccessful. One U.S. moon mission, Apollo 13, was supposed to land on the moon but failed to do so due to a major mechanical defect. It did, however, orbit the moon once. There were no fatalities attributed to U.S. space missions in which astronauts did in fact land on the moon, however.
it will continue as usual.nasa is not all about sending people to space, it has many important missions aside from the shuttle programe
Because of gravity. Everything in space is there because it defied gravity. And I'm not saying that the moon was once on earth. God must have put it there to keep us wondering how it got there.
Apollo 11 only went to the moon once. The landing was on July 20th, 1969, and it was the first landing. There were Apollo missions before this in earth orbit and lunar orbit and there were five more landing missions after Apollo 11.
Although NASA originally planned on missions up through Apollo 20 funding for the missions was drastically reduced once they had "been there and done that". As such they cut back on the planned missions and Apollo 17 became the last moon shot.
Walter Cunningham flew into space once as the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 7 in October 1968. This was his only mission in space.
Usually the first two and the last two letters are blue, making it "once in a blue moon"
1. The moon is the only world, apart from the Earth, that people have actually walked on. Twelve U.S astronauts landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972 in the Apollo missions. 2. The moon always shows the same face to the Earth because it takes the same time for it to spin around once as it does for it to orbit the Earth. 3. The moon's suface is covered by craters caused by rocks, called meteorites, that crashed into it from space.
Grandpa had surprising news for Billy that he was once an astronaut and had been to outer space. He showed Billy his old space suit and photos from his space missions. Billy was amazed and excited by this unexpected revelation.
The lunar rovers used electrical energy. The fuel cells that supplied energy to the command and service modules needed to be started on earth. There is no way to restart a fuel cell once in space. So, the lunar lander, the LEM, and the lunar rovers all had to use stored electrical energy.