Apollo 5

Apollo 5 (an kaddamar da shi a ranar 22 ga watan Janairun shekara ta 1968), wanda aka fi sani da AS-204, shi ne jirgin farko na Apollo Lunar Module (LM) wanda daga baya zai kai 'Yan saman jannati zuwa farfajiyar wata. Rocket din Saturn IB dauke da LM ya tashi daga Cape Kennedy a ranar 22 ga Janairu, 1968. Manufar ta yi nasara, kodayake saboda matsalolin shirye-shirye an aiwatar da wani manufa na daban ga wanda aka shirya da farko.  ry 

Kamar Apollo 4, wannan jirgin ya daɗe yana jinkirta, saboda wani bangare na koma baya a ci gaban LM, wanda Grumman Aircraft ya ƙera. An cire rokar Saturn IB ta asali wacce za ta dauki LM na farko (LM-1) zuwa sararin samaniya a lokacin jinkiri kuma an maye gurbin ta da wanda zai kaddamar da Apollo 1 idan gobarar jirgin sama da ta kashe 'yan saman jannati uku ba ta faru ba. LM-1 ya isa Cibiyar Kennedy Space a watan Yunin 1967; watanni masu zuwa sun shagala a gwaji da sanya LM a saman Saturn IB. Bayan jinkirin ƙarshe saboda matsalar kayan aiki, an fara ƙididdigar a ranar 21 ga Janairu, 1968, kuma an kaddamar da motar sararin samaniya washegari. 

Da zarar jirgin ya kai orbit kuma LM ya rabu da S-IVB booster, shirin gwajin orbital ya fara, amma an zubar da ƙonewar da aka shirya ta atomatik lokacin da Kwamfutar Apollo Guidance ta gano jirgin ba ya tafiya da sauri kamar yadda aka tsara. Daraktan Jirgin Gene Kranz da tawagarsa a Mission Control a Houston da sauri sun yanke shawarar wani manufa ta daban, a lokacin da aka cimma burin gwajin LM-1. Manufar ta yi NASA sosai har aka soke wani aikin na biyu da ba a yi la'akari da shi ba don gwada LM, yana ci gaba da shirye-shiryen NASA na sauka da ɗan saman jannati a kan wata a ƙarshen shekarun 1960.

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In 1961, United States President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land an astronaut on the Moon by the end of the decade, with a safe return to Earth. After considerable debate, NASA (the US government's spaceflight agency) decided in late 1962 that lunar missions would use a lunar orbit rendezvous in which the complete Apollo spacecraft would be propelled towards lunar orbit by the Saturn V launch vehicle's third stage (called the S-IVB). Once in lunar orbit, those astronauts who would land on the Moon would enter what was then called the lunar excursion module (LEM) (later called the lunar module (LM)). This craft would separate from the Apollo's command and service module (CSM) and land on the Moon. When the astronauts were ready to return, they would enter the LM, take off, and re-dock with the CSM. Once the crew reentered the CSM, they would discard the lunar module and return to Earth in the CSM. In 1962, NASA invited eleven companies to bid for the contract to construct the LM. On November 7, 1962, NASA announced that it had awarded the contract to Grumman in Bethpage, New York.
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