€™s Gagarin's launch (The Space Race). Almost during the close of that May, President John F. Kennedy made the striking, audacious declaration that the U.S. would take a man to the moon before the close of the decade. The US dispatched Apollo 8 in the December of 1968, this was the first spacecraft with a human crew to circle the moon, and it was carried out from NASA's gigantic launch complex on Merritt Island, adjacent to Cape Canaveral Florida. On the following July 16th of 1969, American space explorers Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins took off on the Apollo 11 space project, this was the initial attempt to land a man on the moon. In the wake of safe landing on July the 20th the following year, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the lunar surface; 'a small step for man and a giant leap for mankind', Armstrong is reported to have said of the moment (The Space Race).

Apollo 1 (Makara, 2004)
The crew was composed of three individuals; who included Commander Virgil Grissom, Pilot Chaffe, and CM Pilot White. This particular mission was never dispatched. This is because of a fire that started in the Apollo command module on the 27th of January 1967 during a trial run on the launch station, pulverizing the module and burning to death Grissom, Chaffee and CM Pilot White. A launch vehicle, the Saturn 1B, was unharmed and later utilized for the Apollo 5 mission.

Apollo 7 (Makara, 2004)
The crew was composed of three individuals; who included Walter M. Schirra, Walter Cunningham, and Donn F. Eisele. This particular shuttle was redesigned to boost confidence. After the platform fire, the Command Module had been newly built and widely upgraded. The only cosmonaut to have flown in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, Schirra, was in charge of the repairs of the modules.

Apollo 8 (Makara, 2004)
The crew was composed of three individuals; who included Frank Borman, William A. Anders, and James A. Lovell. The Apoll...