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Men went to the moon 9 times, and walked on the moon 6 times. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit Apollo 10: Landing rehearsal Apollo 11: Landing Apollo 12: Landing Apollo 13: Failed mission Apollo 14: Landing Apollo 15: Landing Apollo 16: Landing Apollo 17: Landing
The Apollo 8 spacecraft orbited around the moon 10 times.
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.
Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once during his historic space flight on April 12, 1961. He completed one full orbit before safely landing back on Earth.
There were six Apollo moon landings carrying 12 men to the moon's surface.
Men went to the moon 9 times, and walked on the moon 6 times. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit Apollo 10: Landing rehearsal Apollo 11: Landing Apollo 12: Landing Apollo 13: Failed mission Apollo 14: Landing Apollo 15: Landing Apollo 16: Landing Apollo 17: Landing
The Apollo 8 spacecraft orbited around the moon 10 times.
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.
Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once during his historic space flight on April 12, 1961. He completed one full orbit before safely landing back on Earth.
There were six Apollo moon landings carrying 12 men to the moon's surface.
Two. Once in 1966 on Gemini 8, and again on the Apollo 11 lunar landing flight. During these two flights, he spent a total of 8 Days, 14 hours and 12 minutes in space
There were 17 Apollo missions altogether, although not all of these went to the moon. Many were simply test missions, some unmanned, and some in earth orbit only. Of the missions that went to the moon, Apollo 8 was the first mission to reach the moon, orbit it and return, followed by the next mission to the moon, Apollo 10. However both these missions were not designed to land on the moon's surface but were designed to test the equipment and to look for suitable landing sites. Apollo 13 also reached the moon, but, because of an explosion on board, was not able to land but returned to earth having made a 'free return trajectory' around the moon. The missions that actually landed on the moon were Apollo 11 (the first) followed by 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 after which the Apollo programme was cancelled. So the number of mission to the moon in the Apollo programme was 9 missions, six of which made a landing, meaning that 12 astronauts in total have walked on the moon's surface to date.
During Apollo missions, astronauts experienced forces of up to 4–5 times Earth's gravity (4-5 G's) during launch and re-entry, while in a sitting position. At other times, such as in microgravity during orbit, they experienced weightlessness.
None. The space shuttle came after the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects (Apollo got us to the moon.) The space shuttle was intended to be a freighter of sorts - ferrying materials, satellites and people from Earth's surface to low earth orbit (LEO) and possibly to one or more space stations in geosynchronous orbit. The shuttle was never intended for long distance flights to the moon or further**. They are to be retired next year (2010.) The first space shuttle launch was in 1981, 12 years after the first moon landing in 1969 and 9 years after the last manned trip to the moon. {If you use the official term for a moon landing, both manned and unmanned, then the Soviet Union landed an unmanned vehicle on the moon in 1966, 15 years before the first space shuttle launch.) ** Half of the shuttle (the black underbelly) is landing/shield tiles that burn off as it lands: if you were making a ship for space (and not our atmosphere) you wouldn't need these tiles, you'd need shielding but not the tiles.
Between 1968 and 1972, eight Apollo missions took astronauts to the moon,and entered lunar orbit before returning to Earth.Six of those missions dispatched landers to the surface, carrying two astronauts in each.
Only once, on the Gemini 8 mission. He was listed as a backup pilot for the Gemini 11 but did not go into space on that mission, staying on Earth until he reached the moon with Apollo 11.
Gagarin made one orbit of the earth in 108 minutes before coming back home.