Facts about the Apollo Program

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   Each Apollo spacecraft command module required 5.2 million individual parts and components, assembled with precision standards ensuring only three astronauts died during the entire program in the 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire.

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   Fifty-six lunar missions were planned in the original Apollo program, but only seventeen were approved and funded, with just six successfully landing twelve astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.

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   At 220 pounds, the Apollo Lunar Module weighed less than a grand piano yet safely carried two astronauts to the Moon's surface and back during the Apollo program between 1969 and 1972.

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   During Apollo 13's oxygen tank explosion in 1970, astronauts used the lunar module as a lifeboat to return safely to Earth after the mission was aborted 200,000 miles from home.

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   The Saturn V rocket that powered Apollo missions stood 363 feet tall and weighed 6.2 million pounds at launch, making it the most powerful operational rocket ever built.

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   Astronaut Michael Collins orbited the Moon 30 times during Apollo 11 in July 1969 while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the surface.

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   In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts collected 47.5 pounds of lunar samples during their 2.5-hour moonwalk on the Sea of Tranquility.

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