LIFT OFF! Apollo 8. December 1968 I want to walk on the Moon. I want to look out into the blackness of space. I want to see Earth in its place in the cosmos. I want to feel it, and know my place better.	Moon Walkers 1st... Neil Armstrong 2nd... Buzz Aldrin 3rd... Pete Conrad 4th... Alan Bean 5th... Alan Shepard 6th... Ed Mitchell 7th... Dave Scott 8th... Jim Irwin 9th... John Young 10th. Charlie Duke 11th. Gene Cernan 12th. Harrison Schmitt 13th. ???
APOLLO 1 Gus Grissom (CMD) Ed White Roger Chaffe	All 3 died in a fire on the launch pad during an "all plugs out" test. It is probable that Grisson would have been the first man to walk on the moon in a later flight.
APOLLO 7 Wally Shirra (CMD) Dan Eisle Walter Cunningham	The Humpty Dumpty mission. Earth orbit shake down of command module after revisions due to the fire on Apollo 1.
APOLLO 8 Frank Borman (CMD) Jim Lovell (CMP) Bill Anders (LMP)	First mission to the moon; orbited 10 times. These three men are the first to travel out of the gravitational influence of Earth, first to visit the moon.
APOLLO 9 Jim McDivitt (CMD) Dave Scott (CMP) Randy Schweickart (LMP)	Earth orbit shakedown of the Lunar Landing Module (LEM). McDivitt was offered Apollo 8, but turned it down because Apollo 9 was a test pilot's mission- testing a new space craft was more important to him than being the first man to go to the moon!
APOLLO 10 Tom Stafford (CMD) John Young (CMP) Gene Cernan (LMP)	Dress rehearsal for the landing; Stafford and Cernan take the LEM down to 50,000 ft!
APOLLO 11 Neil Armstrong (CMD) Mike Collins (CMP) Buzz Aldrin (LMP)	First landing on the moon! Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the face of it, while Collins stays in lunar orbit in the command module.
APOLLO 12 Pete Conrad (CMD) Dick Gordon (CMP) Allen Bean	Second landing on the moon (Conrad and Bean), while Gordon stays in lunar orbit in the command module. First precision landing using Doppler velocity measurements of the LEM. Gordon would have been commander of Apollo 18 and would have walked on the moon, but NASA funding was cut by Congress (Nixon Administration).
APOLLO 13 Jim Lovell (CMD) Jack Swigert (CMP) Fred Haise (LMP)	The successful failure. Oxygen tank 2 explodes at 200,000 miles from Earth while on the way to the moon. Yu have seen the movie? Lovell makes his second trip to the moon. He had orbited the moon 10 times in Apollo 8. Now he misses his dream of walking on it.
APOLLO 14 Alan Shepard (CMD) Stu Roosa (CMP) Ed Mitchell (LMP)	The "old retread and the two rookies" make the Apollo 13 mission. Shepard had been the first American in Spaec on top of a Redstone. He had 15 minutes of space flight experience up to that time. They over came three major mission abort threats.
APOLLO 15 Dave Scott (CMD) Al Worden (CMP) Jim Irwin (LMP)	The first mission with the Rover.
APOLLO 16 John Young (CMD) Ken Mattingly (CMP) Charlie Duke (LMP)	John Young makes his second trip to the moon, and this time walks on it. In 1981, Young commands the first Space Shuttle mission! Mattingly had been the CMP for Apollo 13 and was axed from that mission due to the threat of measles (which he would have caught from Charlie Duke). Duke had been the astronoaut communicating (CAPCOM) with Armstrong and Aldrin when Apollo 11 made its historic landing.
APOLLO 17 Gene Cernan (CMD) Rod Evans (CMP) Harrison Schmidt (Dr. Rock) (LMP)	Gene Cernan makes his second trip to the moon, and this time walks on it. They live on the moon for three days. Cernan leaves the last human footprint.