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The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that "I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby."

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Why is spacecraft Apollo 13 named after the god Apollo?

All the Apollo missions where named after Apollo not just 13. But the reason being is that he was the God of the Sun, Light and Knowledge. And the Apollo missions were all about collect data on the moon


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The missions that landed on the moon as part of NASA's Apollo program were Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. These missions successfully landed astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972.


How may moon missions were apart of the Apollo program?

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Why are all the Apollo missions called Apollo?

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Did Apollo 2 land on the moon?

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Did one of the Apollo rockets fail to land on earth?

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How many lunar rovers are on the moon?

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Why do scientists continue to study the moon long after the Apollo program ended?

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