For some reason, and I won’t get it into it now, there’s a very popular conspiracy that states that America faked the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that effectively landed the first Americans on the moon. The naysayers have their reasons for why it “didn’t happen,” but I don’t buy it. NASA’s Apollo program has done some of the most amazing work known to humans, including getting them on the moon for the first time.
Source: NASA
The Apollo mission began with President John F. Kennedy’s speech on May 25, 1961, when he announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon. 8 years and 10 Apollo missions later, history was made.
These are all the Apollo missions that led up to that moment in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took those first steps and the missions after it. And yeah, the photographs are literally out of this world. Just see for yourself.
Apollo 1 (Never Left the Ground)
Start Date: Jan 27, 1967
Astronauts: Roger B. Chaffee, Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White
Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II, and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967. Source: NASA
Apollo 1 actually never left the ground. On January 27, 1967, a fire erupted during a test on the launch pad and destroyed the module. Sadly, the three astronauts perished. The silver lining was that NASA learned a great amount from this, changing many dangerous design flaws.