John Young piloted Apollo 16 Lunar Module named "Orion" to the lunar surface on the moon on April 21, 1972. Young's Lunar Module Pilot for the mission was Charlie Duke who was the Capsule Communicator at Johnson Space Center the day Apollo 11 became the first astronauts to land on the moon. John Young was the Command Module pilot on the Apollo 10 mission which cleared the way for the Apollo 11 landing 2 months later.
No space shuttle has ever reached the moon. The 5 manned missions to land on the moon were the Apollo missions 11 though 17, with the exception of Apollo 13, which was unable to land due to a malfunction.
No. The space shuttle is built for low Earth orbit, not moon landings.
The Apollo program was a series of space missions conducted by NASA with the goal of landing humans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth. It was started by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to the Soviet Union's early successes in space exploration.
Lance Armstrong never went to the moon. Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon at 4:17 EDT on the afternoon of July 20, 1969.
No, John Glenn did not land on the moon. He was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 but did not participate in any of the Apollo moon landing missions.
John F Kennedy did not land on the moon, nor was he even still alive at the time of the first manned lunar mission.
It had proven that man could land on the moon. But it also did meat John kennedys target. And do not forget that there was a moon race on to land the first man on the moon.
John Glenn did not land on the moon. He was a NASA astronaut who became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. The moon landing was achieved by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
John Glenn did not land on the moon. He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962 but did not participate in the moon landing missions. The moon landing was achieved by NASA's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
John F. Kennedy
John Glenn did not land on the moon. He became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962, as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. The moon landing was achieved by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
The challenge was given by the President John F. Kennedy. It was to land a man on the moon and to bring him back safely to the earth. It was to be done by 31/12/ 1969.
President John F. Kennedy of the United States.
John Glenn did not land on the moon. He was the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962, in the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft. The moon landing was achieved by the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first humans to set foot on the moon.
President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to the United States space program to land a man on the moon in the 1960s.
In 1961 John Kennedy set a target for the U.s.A to land a man on the moon and to return him back to the earth by 31/12/1969.