Moon Landing: A Chronology of the Apollo Missions

It was February 1966. A Saturn V rocket began a suborbital unmanned test flight with the Apollo Command Module for the first time.

A Saturn Orbital test flight followed, without the Apollo Spaceship, in July 1966; a further flight with the Apollo Command Module took off in August 1966.

The Saturn Rocket Vehicle was developed by the scientists and technicians of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun for the NASA in the context of the Apollo prog...