APPENDIX 5
Summary Data on Apollo Missions
| Mission No. | Launch vehicle No.a | CSM No. | LM No. | Crewb | Call signs (CSM, LM) | Date, timec of launch | Launch Sited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo 7 | 205 | 101 | None | Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham | Apollo 7 (no LM) | 11 Oct. 1968 | ETR |
| 10:02:45 a.m. | LC-34 | ||||||
| Apollo 8 | 503 | 103 | None | Borman, Lovell, Anders | Apollo 8 (no LM) | 21 Dec. 1968 | KSC |
| 7:51:00 a.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 9 | 504 | 104 | 3 | McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart | Gumdrop, Spider | 3 March 1969 | KSC |
| 11:00:00 a.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 10 | 505 | 106 | 4 | Stafford, Young, Cernan | Charlie Brown, Snoopy | 18 May 1969 | KSC |
| 11:49:00 a.m. | LC-39B | ||||||
| Apollo 11 | 506 | 107 | 5 | Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin | Columbia, Eagle | 16 July 1969 8 | KSC |
| 8:32:00 a.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 12 | 507 | 108 | 6 | Conrad, Gordon, Bean | Yankee Clipper, Intrepid | 14 Nov. 1969 | KSC |
| 11:22:00 a.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 13 | 508 | 109 | 7 | Lovell, Swigert, Haise | Odyssey, Aquarius | 11 Apr. 1970 | KSC |
| 2:13:00 p.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 14 | 509 | 110 | 8 | Shepard, Roosa, Mitchell | Kitty Hawk, Antares | 31 Jan 1971 | KSC |
| 5:03:02 p.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 15 | 510 | 112 | 10 | Scott, Worden, Irwin | Endeavor, Falcon | 26 July 1971 | KSC |
| 8:34:00 a.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 16 | 511 | 113 | 11 | Young, Mattingly, Duke | Caspar, Orion | 16 Apr. 1972 | KSC |
| 12:54:00 p.m. | LC-39A | ||||||
| Apollo 17 | 512 | 114 | 12 | Cernan, Evans, Schmitt | America, Challenger | 7 Dec. 1972 | KSC |
| 12:33:00 a.m. | LC-39A |
- 200 number, Saturn IB; 500 number, Saturn V.
- Commander, CM pilot, LM pilot.
- Eastern Standard Time.
- ETR, Eastern Test Range; KSC, Kennedy Space Center; LC, launch complex.
Source for all tables: “Apollo Program Summary Report,” JSC-09423, April 1975.
| Mission | Landing date, timea | Mission durationb | Landing point, lat., long.c | Dist. from target (nm)d | Ocean | Recovery ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo 7 | 22 Oct. 1968, 6:11:48 | 260:09:03 | 27 deg. 38'N, 64 deg. 9'W | 1.9 | Atlantic | U.S.S. Essex |
| Apollo 8 | 27 Dec. 1968, 10:51:42 | 147:00:42 | 8 deg. 6'N, 165 deg. 1'W | 1.4 | Pacific | U.S.S. Yorktown |
| Apollo 9 | 13 Mar. 1969, 12:00:53 | 241:00:54 | 23 deg. 13'N, 67 deg. 59'W | 2.7 | Atlantic | U.S.S. Guadalcanal |
| Apollo 10 | 26 May 1969, 11:52:23 | 192:03:23 | 15 deg. 4'S, 164 deg. 39'W | 1.3 | Pacific | U.S.S. Princeton |
| Apollo 11 | 24 July 1969, 11:50:35 | 195:18:35 | 13 deg. 18'N, 169 deg. 9'W | 1.7 | Pacific | U.S.S. Hornet |
| Apollo 12 | 24 Nov. 1969, 15:58:25 | 244:36:25 | 15 deg. 47'S, 165 deg. 9'W | 2.0 | Pacific | U.S.S. Hornet |
| Apollo 13 | 17 April 1970, 13:07:41 | 142:54:41 | 2 deg. 38'S, 165 deg. 22'W | 1.0 | Pacific | U.S.S. Iwo Jima |
| Apollo 14 | 9 Feb. 1971, 16:05:00 | 216:01:58 | 27 deg. 1'S, 172 deg. 40'W | 0.6 | Pacific | U.S.S. New orleans |
| Apollo 15 | 7 Aug. 1971, 15:45:53 | 259:11:53 | 26 deg. 8'N, 158 deg. 8'W | 1.0 | Pacific | U.S.S. Okinawa |
| Apollo 16 | 27 Apr. 1972, 14:45:05 | 265:51:05 | 0 deg. 42'S, 156 deg. 13'W | 3.0 | Pacific | U.S.S. Ticonderoga |
| Apollo 17 | 19 Dec. 1972, 14:24:59 | 301:51:59 | 17 deg. 53'S, 166 deg. 7'W | 1.0 | Pacific | U.S.S. Ticonderoga |
- Command module splashdown, Eastern Standard Time.
- Hours:minutes:seconds.
- Best estimate; may be based on recovery ship position data, CM computer data, or trajectory reconstruction.
| Mission No. | Lunar landing site (lat., long./name) |
Date, timea of: | Time on lunar surfaceb | Duration of EVAsc | Weight of samples collected (kg) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunar liftoff | Lunar landing | |||||
| Apollo 11 | 0.7 deg.N, 23.4 deg.E, Mare Tranquillitatis |
20 July 1969, 17:17:40 | 21 July 1969, 14:54:01 | 21:36:21 | 2:31:40 | 21 |
| Apollo 12 | 3.2 deg.S, 23.4 deg.W, Oceanus Procellarum |
19 Nov. 1969, 1:54:36 | 20 Nov. 1969, 9:25:48 | 31:31:12 | 3:56:03 | 16.7 |
| 3:49:15 | 17.6 | |||||
| 7:45:18 | 34.3 | |||||
| Apollo 14(d) | 3.6 deg.S, 17.5 deg.W, Fra Mauro |
5 Feb. 1971, 4:18:11 | 6 Feb. 1971, 13:48:42 | 33:30:31 | 4:47:50 | 20.5 |
| 4:34:41 | 22.3 | |||||
| 9:22:31 | 42.8 | |||||
| Apollo 15 | 26.1 deg.N, 3.7 deg.E, Hadley-Apennine |
30 July 1971, 17:16:29 | 2 Aug. 1971, 13:11:22 | 66:54:53 | 0:33:07 (e) | -- |
| 6:32:42 | 14.5 | |||||
| 7:12:14 | 34.9 | |||||
| 4:49:50 | 27.3 | |||||
| 19:07:53 | 76.7 | |||||
| Apollo 16 | 9.0 deg.S, 15.5 deg.E, Descartes |
20 Apr. 1972, 21:23:35 | 23 Apr. 1972, 20:25:48 | 71:02:13 | 7:11:02 | 29.9 |
| 7:23:11 | 29 | |||||
| 5:40:03 | 35.4 | |||||
| 20:14:16 | 94.3 | |||||
| Apollo 17 | 20.2 deg.N, 30.8 deg.E, Taurus-Littrow |
11 Dec. 1972, 14:54:57 | 14 Dec. 1972, 17:54:37 | 74:59:40 | 7:11:53 | 14.3 |
| 7:36:56 | 34.1 | |||||
| 7:15:08 | 62 | |||||
| 22:03:57 | 110.4 | |||||
- Eastern Standard Time. Liftoff time calculated from touchdown time plus time on lunar surface.
- Touchdown to liftoff, hr:min:sec.
- Extravehicular activity in hr:min:sec, LM hatch opening to closing. Multiple EVAs shown separately.
- Apollo 13 was aborted following an explosion in the service module 55 hr, 54 min after launch. Intended landing site, on the Fra Mauro formation, was used for Apollo 14.
- “Standup” EVA - commander stood up in open upper LM hatch to make visual and photographic observations of the landing area
| Mission | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experiment | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |
| I. Surface Experiments | ||||||||
| S-031 | Passive seismic experiment | x | x | (x) | x | x | x | |
| S-033 | Active seismic experiment | x | x | |||||
| S-034 | Lunar surface magnetometer | x | x | x | ||||
| S-035 | Solar wind spectrometer | x | x | x | ||||
| S-036 | Suprathermal ion detector | x | x | x | ||||
| S-037 | Heat flow experiment | (x) | x | x | ||||
| S-038 | Charged particle lunar environment | (x) | x | |||||
| S-058 | Cold cathode ion gauge | x | x | x | ||||
| S-059 | Lunar field geology | x | x | (x) | x | x | x | x |
| S-080 | Solar wind composition | x | x | (x) | x | x | ||
| S-078 | Laser ranging retroreflector | x | x | x | ||||
| M-515 | Lunar dust detector | x | (x) | x | x | |||
| S-198 | Portable magnetometer | x | x | |||||
| S-199 | Lunar gravity traverse | x | ||||||
| S-200 | Soil mechanics | x | x | x | x | |||
| S-201 | Far-ultraviolet camera spectroscope | x | ||||||
| S-202 | Lunar ejecta and meteorites | x | ||||||
| S-203 | Lunar seismic profiling | x | ||||||
| S-204 | Surface electrical properties | x | ||||||
| S-205 | Lunar atmospheric composition | x | ||||||
| S-207 | Lunar surface gravimeter | x | ||||||
| S-229 | Lunar neutron probe | x | ||||||
| II. Lunar Orbital Experiments | ||||||||
| S-158 | Multispectral photography | x | ||||||
| S-176 | Command module window meteoroid | x | x | x | x | |||
| S-177 | Ultraviolet photography, earth and moon | x | x | |||||
| S-178 | Gegenschein from lunar orbit | (x) | x | x | ||||
| S-160 | Gamma-ray spectrometer | x | x | |||||
| S-161 | X-ray fluorescence | x | x | |||||
| S-162 | Alpha-particle spectrometer | x | x | |||||
| S-164 | S-band transponder (CSM/LM) | x | (x) | x | x | x | ||
| S-164 | S-band transponder (subsatellite) | x | x | |||||
| S-165 | Mass spectrometer | x | x | |||||
| S-169 | Far-ultraviolet spectrometer | x | ||||||
| S-170 | Bistatic radar | x | x | x | x | |||
| S-171 | Infrared scanning radiometer | x | ||||||
| S-173 | Particle shadows boundary layer (subsatellite) | x | x | |||||
| S-174 | Magnetometer (subsatellite) | x | x | |||||
| S-209 | Lunar sounder | x | ||||||
(x) not performed (or deployed) on aborted mission.
Source JSC. “What We've Learned About The Moon,” July 1980.
| Experiment | Apollo 12 Array A |
Apollo 13 Array B |
Apollo 14 Array C |
Apollo 15 Array A-2 |
Apollo 16 Array D |
Apollo 17 Array E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passive seismic | Short-period Z-axis has displayed reduced sensitivity since deployment. | Not deployed. | Long-period Z-axis inoperative since 3/20/72. Noisy data on long-period Y axis since 4/14/73. | Full operation | Full operation | |
| Active seismic | Mortar not fired. Geophone 3 data noisy since 3/26/71. Geophone 2 data invalid since 1/3/74. | 3 of 4 grenade. launched, Mortal pitch sensor off scale after 3rd firing on 5/23/72 | ||||
| Lunar surface magnetometer | Permanently commanded off 6/4/74. | Permanently commanded off 6/14/74. | Full operation | |||
| Solar wind spectrometer | Full operation except for intermittent modulation drop in two proton energy levels each lunation since 11/5/71. | Permanently commanded off 6/14/74 | ||||
| Suprathermal ion detector | Periodically commanded off to prevent high-voltage arcing at elevated lunar day temperatures since 9/9/72. | Periodically commanded to standby operation to avoid mode changes at elevated lunar day temperatures since 3/29/72. | Periodically commanded to standby operation to avoid mode changes at elevated lunar day temperatures since 9/13/73. | |||
| Heat flow | Not deployed. | Probe 2 not to full depth intended, but experiment provides useful data. | Inoperative since emplacement | Full operation | ||
| Cold-cathode ion gauge | Inoperative. Failed 14 hours after turn-on 11/20/69. | Not deployed. | Intermittent science data since 3/29/72. | Intermittent science data since 2/22/73. | ||
| Lunar ejecta and meteorites | Thermal control design not optimum for Apollo 17 site. Instrument operated for about 75% of lunation. |
* The Apollo 14 ALSEP station failed in January 1976. The stations still operating (12, 15, 16, and 17) were turned off September 30, 1977.
| Mission | Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Glynn S. Lunney | Eugene F. Kranz | Gerald D. Griffin | -- |
| 8 | Clifford E. Charlesworth | Lunney | Milton L. Windler | -- |
| 9 | Kranz | Griffin | M. P. Frank | -- |
| 10 | Lunney, Griffin | Windler | Frank | -- |
| 11 | Charlesworth, Griffin | Kranz | Lunney | Windler |
| 12 | Griffin | Frank | Charlesworth | Lunney |
| 13 | Windler | Griffin | Kranz | Lunney |
| 14 | Frank, Lunney | Windler | Griffin | -- |
| 15 | Griffin | Windler | Lunney, Kranz | -- |
| 16 | Frank, Philip C. Shaffer | Kranz, Donald R. Puddy | Griffin, Neil B. Hutchinson, Charles R. Lewis | -- |
| 17 | Griffin | Kranz, Hutchinson | Frank Lewis | -- |
Source: memos from Director, Flight Operations, MSC, to multiple addressees, listing personnel assignments for the Mission Control Center for each flight.