The purpose was to put man on the moon and return him and the spacecraft safely. But they also wanted to establish new technology and develop man's abillity to work in a lunar enviorment. The Apollo program is the most remembered and most significant of all the programs.
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20th The Apollo space program went to the moon.
As of now, the best-known and most historically important US space program would be the Apollo missions, from 1967 to 1972. Collectively, they produced the following milestones:The first manned orbit of the moon. (Apollo 10)The first men on the moon. (Apollo 11)The first manned vehicle on the moon. (Apollo 15)The last men on the moon to date. (Apollo 17)The most famous space disaster with a happy ending. (Apollo 13)What at the time was the most famous space-related disaster with a tragic ending. (Apollo 1, since superseded by the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters)
Apollo Soyuz in July 1975, involved the docking of an unnumbered Apollo Command/Service Module (a surplus one from the terminated Apollo moon program and the last to fly) with the Soviet Soyuz 19.
Prsident John Kennedy started the space mission to land a man on the moon and to bring him back safely,The Apollo mission.
Nobody. The Apollo program placed a total of 24 astronauts on the moon, exactly two at a time. Never more, never fewer.