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Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America (NASA) using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961 � 1975. It was devoted to the goal (in U.S. President John F. Kennedy's famous words) of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" within the decade of the 1960s. This goal was achieved with the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to travel to the moon in December 1968, with Frank Bormann, Jim Lovell (later to be the Commander of Apollo 13), and Bill Anders. They orbited it ten times, and did not land.

The Pioneer 4 space probe had flown past the moon (within 60 000 km) on 4th March 1959.

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