Launch providers and vehicles
Apollo program
The lunar program, whose Saturn V flights left from Launch Complex 39A, with Apollo 10 from 39B, and whose Saturn IB flights used Launch Complexes 34 and 37 on the Cape [NASAAPP][NASA39AL][NASA39B][NASAAP7][NASAAP5]. The Apollo 1 crew died in a pad fire at Launch Complex 34 on 27 January 1967 [NASAAP1].
- Entity type
- human spaceflight program
- Kind
- program
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1967
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1967 · 1967: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- lunar program on the Saturn IB and Saturn V
- Cutoff status
- Retired
- Status as of the cutoff
- Retired. The final lunar mission flew in 1972; Apollo spacecraft flew the Skylab crews in 1973 and the Apollo Soyuz mission from Pad 39B.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 5
- Betweenness
- 0.0303 on the full graph · 0.0262 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASAAPP] [NASAAP11] [NASAAP1] [NASAAP7] [NASAAP5] [NASA39AL] [NASA39B]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- flies from →1968
- flies from →Space Launch Complex 37Apollo 5 flies the first lunar module from Launch Complex 37B on 22 January 1968 [NASAAP5]1968
- flies from →Launch Complex 39Athe Saturn V flights leave from the pad, Apollo 10 excepted [NASA39AL] [NASAAPP] [WLC39A]1967 to 1973
- flies from →Launch Complex 39BApollo 10, the three Skylab crews and the Apollo Soyuz crew fly from Pad 39B [NASA39B]1969 to 1975
- integrates at →Vehicle Assembly Buildingthe Saturn V is stacked in the building completed in 1966 [NASAVAB]1966 onward