On October 27, 1961, Apollo 7 became the first manned flight, but the launch of the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo 11 mission that put the first human on the Moon, in July 1969, 32 Apollo flights were made in total, the last one was apollo 17 December 19, 1972, of the missions only one failed and that was Apollo 1 and 13 The Apollo Program was a manned space program developed by the United States in the 1960s as part of the space race with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The project began i

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared that the country should set a goal to — by the end of the decade — land a man on the moon and bring him safely back to Earth. At the time the challenge was made, the U.S. had only made one 15-minute suborbital spaceflight. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs helped make Kennedy's goal a reality, with the first two programs providing the stepping stones needed to move on to the Apollo flight

Apollo: Missions To The Moon shares rare NASA footage and interviews that capture the mission to land Americans on the moon. Here's the story about how this documentary came together. | National Geographic TV

Space week kicks off tonight at 9 with Apollo: Missions to the Moon, an archival footage-based documentary following NASA's Apollo missions and their journey to land an American on the moon. | National Geographic TV