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The apollo project is a US space project to
land a person on the Moon, this was achieved
on the 20th July 1969, when Neil Armstrong
was the first to set foot there. The
programme was announced in 1961 by President
Kennedy. The world's most powerful rocket,
Saturn V, was built to launch the Apollo
spacecraft, which carried three astronauts.
When the spacecraft was in orbit around the
Moon, two astronauts would descend to the
surface in a lunar module to take samples of
rock and set up experiments that would send
data back to Earth. The first Apollo mission
carrying a crew, was in Oct 1968. The total
cost of the Apollo programme was over
$24 billion.
Subject by: Vince Pike