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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1972
Page
20
A historical chronology lists key spaceflights and moon missions from February 20, 1962 with John Glenn’s orbit to July 26, 1971 lunar rover mission. It pairs crew names with mission dates and orbit counts across Atlas launches.
Mercury Atlas 6 on February 20, 1962 with John Glenn becomes the first American in orbit. Mercury Atlas 9 on May 15, 1963 with Gordon Cooper conducts 22 orbits, marking the first long American flight. Apollo 7 on October 11 1968 features Walter Schirra Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham in the first manned Apollo mission with 163 orbits.
The record lists Apollo 8 with Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders achieving the first lunar orbit mission on December 21 1968. Apollo 12 with Charles Conrad Allan Bean landing on the Moon November 14 1969. Apollo 13 suffers a power failure en route aborting a landing on April 11 1970. Apollo 14 sees Alan Shepard land on the Moon January 31 1971, noting his prior spaceflight distinction.
In 1959 to 1972 NASA funding rose from 330 million to over 3.3 billion as unmanned Luna 16 sparked new questions about robotic exploration. Apollo advocates stress human insight while unmanned proponents tout cost and safety.
Three American astronauts Virgil Gris som Edward White and Roger Chaffee died January 27 1967 in a deadly fire during a full scale Apollo program simulation. They were the first astronauts killed in a space test program and no American astronauts had fatalities since.
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