Program archive

Apollo

Across 22 uncrewed development flights and 11 crewed missions, Apollo joined enormous , purpose-built spacecraft, global tracking, and increasingly ambitious crews into the first sustained human exploration of another world.

Missions: 34
People: 32
Vehicles: 41

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Apollo timeline

33 flights. One complete program record.

Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.

Defining milestones

The turning points that shaped this program and its legacy.

Every Apollo program record

All 34 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.

Launch corridor

33 flights and tests compressed into 2 expandable arcs · 1 unflown concept parked off the flight path.

Arc 01Ignition1961–1966 · 19 records
Arc 02Final approach1967–1972 · 14 records

Flight arc 01IgnitionSA-1 → AS-2021961–1966 · 19 records1961–1966
19 records

Flight arc 02Final approachApollo 4 → Apollo 171967–1972 · 14 records1967–1972
14 records

Off the flight pathUnflown conceptsPlans and assignments preserved in the archive, but never flown.1 record

Planned for February 21, 1967; never launched after the January 27, 1967 ground-test fireApollo 1034