It was a race to the moon involving Americans and Russians. ... One man would spend the entire mission in the command module and the other two men will leave it during the lunar landing. ... The S-IVB contained Liquid hydrogen tank, unlike other two stages, S-IVB separated with a single step, nearly 12 minutes after takeoff, the craft went into orbit 100 miles up, when all systems were working fine, the astronauts restarted the third stage, which pushed the rocket out of the Earth's gravity and send Apollo mission to the moon. ... Mercury Program had two goals; putting a human in orbit...

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Kennedy announced to America that we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. ... Two were found. ... The most popular Apollo mission was Apollo eleven, where Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked the moon. ... The superstition came true when one of the two oxygen tanks exploded during the launch, and the command module was separated from its service module. ... In addition to our exploration of the moon, we are now exploring our solar system. ...

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