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Apollo program

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Apollo program US space exploration project to land men on the Moon. Initiated in May 1961 by President John Kennedy, it achieved its objective on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. The project terminated with the successful Apollo-Soyuz linkup in space during July 1975. It placed more than 30 astronauts in space and 12 on the Moon.

http://www.nasm.edu/apollo; http://gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar

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