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Summary of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions

Note Throughout tables the European time format (day/month/year) is used; all times are UTC.

Mission Spacecraft Crew Mission duration [UTC] Landing site  Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events
no. designation callsign   lift-off landing    
 
Mercury  
1 MR-3 Freedom 7 1 05/05/1961 05/05/1961 Atlantic Ocean ballistic/suborbital test flight of 15 min, 22 sec duration; Redstone rocket; apogee reached was 187.5 km; landing only 486 km downrange; Alan Shepard
2 MR-4 Liberty Bell 7 1 21/07/1961 21/07/1961 Atlantic Ocean ballistic/suborbital test flight of 15 min, 37 sec duration; Redstone rocket; apogee reached was 190.3 km; landing only 420 km downrange; capsule drowned after splashdown; Virgil Grissom safely recovered
3 MA-6 Friendship 7 1 20/02/1962 20/02/1962 Atlantic Ocean first orbital flight of 4 hrs, 55 min duration (three orbits); Mercury-Atlas rocket; John Glenn
4 MA-7 Aurora 7 1 24/05/1962 24/05/1962 Atlantic Ocean second orbital flight of 4 hrs, 56 min duration (three orbits); Scott Carpenter
5 MA-8 Sigma 7 1 03/10/1962 03/10/1962 Pacific Ocean third orbital flight of 9 hrs, 13 min duration (six orbits); Walter Schirra
6 MA-9 Faith 7 1 15/05/1963 16/05/1963 Pacific Ocean fourth orbital and last Mercury flight of 1 day, 10 hrs, 19 min duration (22 orbits); Gordon Cooper
 

Mission Spacecraft Crew Mission duration [UTC] Landing site  Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events
no. designation callsign   lift-off landing    
 
Gemini  
1 Gemini III Molly Brown (unofficial) 2 23/03/1965 23/03/1965 Atlantic Ocean first two men crew test flight of 4 hrs, 53 min duration (three orbits); Titan-II rocket; Virgil Grissom, John Young
2 Gemini IV Gemini 4 2 03/06/1965 07/06/1965 Atlantic Ocean first US extravehicular activity (EVA) by Ed White; duration 4 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes (62 orbits); James McDivitt, Edward White
3 Gemini V Gemini 5 2 21/08/1965 28/08/1965 Atlantic Ocean first weeklong mission; rendezvous with Agena fails; duration 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes (120 orbits); Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad
4 Gemini VII Gemini 7 2 04/12/1966 18/12/1966 Atlantic Ocean double mission with Gemini VI-A; rendezvous up to 0.3 m distance; duration 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes (206 orbits); Frank Bormann, James Lovell
5 Gemini VI-A Gemini 6A 2 15/12/1966 16/12/1966 Atlantic Ocean 7.5 hrs formation flight with Gemini VII; several mission delays; duration 1 day, 1 hour, 51 minutes (16 orbits); Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford
6 Gemini VIII Gemini 8 2 16/03/1966 16/03/1966 Atlantic Ocean first docking with Agena; critically tumbling spacecraft teminates mission; duration 10 hours, 41 minutes (six orbits); Neil Armstrong, David Scott
7 Gemini IX-A Gemini 9A 2 03/06/1966 06/06/1966 Atlantic Ocean three rendezvous manoeuvres with Agena; troublesome EVA; duration 3 days, 20 minutes (47 orbits); Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan
8 Gemini X Gemini 10 2 18/07/1966 21/07/1966 Atlantic Ocean several successful docking and rendezvous manoeuvres with Agena; duration 2 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes (43 orbits); John Young, Michael Collins
9 Gemini XI Gemini 11 2 12/09/1966 15/09/1966 Atlantic Ocean successful repeat of Gemini X mission; troublesome EVAs; duration 2 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes (44 orbits); Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon
10 Gemini XII Gemini 12 2 11/11/1966 15/11/1966 Atlantic Ocean final and most successful Gemini flight preparing for Apollo programme; duration 3 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes (59 orbits); James Lovell, Edwin Aldrin
 

Mission Spacecraft Crew Mission duration [UTC] Landing site  Purpose / mission highlights / noticeable events
no. designation callsign (CSM / LM)   lift-off landing    
 
Apollo  
- Apollo 1 - 3 27/01/1967 - - catastrophic fire during launch pad test kills astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee
1 Apollo 7 Apollo 7 3 11/10/1968 22/10/1968 Atlantic Ocean first three man spacecraft; Saturn 1B rocket; Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham
2 Apollo 8 Apollo 8 3 21/12/1968 27/12/1968 Pacific Ocean first manned voyage to the moon (ten lunar orbits); Saturn V rocket; Frank Bormann, James Lovell, William Anders
3 Apollo 9 Gumdrop / Spider 3 (2) 03/03/1969 13/03/1969 Atlantic Ocean all lunar rendezvous manoeuvres tested in Earth orbit; James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell Schweickart
4 Apollo 10 Charlie Brown / Snoopy 3 (2) 18/05/1969 26/05/1969 Pacific Ocean moon voyage including simulated descent; Eugene Cernan, John Young, Thomas Stafford
5 Apollo 11 Columbia / Eagle 3 (2) 16/07/1969 23/07/1969 Pacific Ocean first successful landing on moon; Neil Armstrong (1st), Edwin Aldrin (2nd), Michael Collins
6 Apollo 12 Yankee Clipper / Intrepid 3 (2) 14/11/1969 24/11/1969 Pacific Ocean second moon landing; lightning strike after lift-off; Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon
7 Apollo 13 Odyssee / Aquarius 3 11/04/1970 17/04/1970 Pacific Ocean oxygen tank explodes on the way to the moon; James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise rescued
8 Apollo 14 Kitty Hawk / Antares 3 (2) 31/01/1971 08/02/1971 Pacific Ocean third successful landing on moon; Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa
9 Apollo 15 Endeavour / Falcon 3 (2) 26/07/1971 07/08/1971 Pacific Ocean fourth moon landing and first use of lunar rover; David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden
10 Apollo 16 Casper / Orion 3 (2) 16/04/1972 27/04/1972 Pacific Ocean fifth moon landing and second use of lunar rover; John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly
11 Apollo 17 America / Challenger 3 (2) 07/12/1972 19/12/1972 Pacific Ocean final and longest successful moon mission; Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans
12 Skylab 2 Skylab 3 25/05/1973 22/06/1973 Pacific Ocean docking to first US space station Skylab-1; Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul Weitz
13 Skylab 3 Skylab 3 28/07/1973 26/09/1973 Pacific Ocean second visit to Skylab-1; more than 13 hrs EVA; Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma
14 Skylab 4 Skylab 3 16/11/1973 08/02/1974 Pacific Ocean final and record breaking (long endurance) Skylab-1 visit; Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, William Pogue
15 Apollo ASTP Apollo 3 15/07/1975 24/07/1975 Pacific Ocean only rendezvous with Russian spacecraft (Soyuz-19); Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Donald Slayton