This isSaturn 5In the first manned flight（Apollo 8）The last previous unmanned flight was intended to testCommand shelter reentry systemSimulate a return from the moon to the earth under very bad conditions.Finally, this goal was not achieved because the J-2 engine failed.
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The American public showed little interest in the Apollo 6 mission.Because on the day of launch,Martin Luther KingWas shot atTennesseeStateMemphisCity.Five days before the launch, President Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election and other events had become the focus of the American public, instead of paying attention to the launch of Apollo 6.
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Up to 2006, only the following 12 people (listed in the order of landing on the moon) have landed on the moon, and all of them have only performed the mission of landing on the moon once.No one else has landed on the moon since 1972, and the list will not change in the next 10 years.
1 -- Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July 1969
2 -- Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 - July 1969
3 -- PETE·Conrad-Apollo 12 - November 1969 (Apollo 20 moon landing mission is planned, but since it has already landed on the moon, Conrad is unlikely to land on the moon again even if Apollo 20 is finally implemented)
9 -- John Young-Apollo 16-April 1972 (Yang also executed Apollo 10, which had not landed on the moon
10 -- Charles Duke Apollo 16 - April 1972
11 - Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December 1972 (Cernan also executed Apollo 10 without landing on the moon)
12 -- Harrison Schmidt Apollo 17 astronauts who approached the moon but did not land on the moon in December 1972: in each of the six Apollo missions listed above, one astronaut stayed in the command/service module and orbited the moon when the other two partners landed on the moon.In addition, Apollo 8Apollo 10In the three missions of Apollo 13, three astronauts approached the moon (in the first two missions, the spacecraft orbited the moon as planned, while Apollo 13 only bypassed the moon and did not enter the orbit).
The following is the list of astronauts who were only hundreds of kilometers away from the moon:
