Several planned missions of the Apollo crewed Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled, for reasons which included changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 13 incident, hardware delays, and budget limitations.

In December 1974, the crew of the cancelled Apollo 18 mission is informed that it will proceed as a top secret Department of Defense (DoD) mission to deliver a classified payload. Commander Nathan Walker, Lieutenant Colonel John Grey, and Captain Ben Anderson are launched in secret to place an early warning detector on the Moon for ICBM attacks ...

Dec 11, 2003 · Vance Brand went on to fly on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) and command three Shuttle missions. (The ASTP is often referred to as "Apollo 18" although the original Apollo 18 was the planned Moon mission.) Charles Conrad and Paul Weitz were assigned to the first crew to Skylab, Weitz later commanded a shuttle mission.

Sep 2, 2011 · Some of them weren't so little: Dale W. Cox Jr., a retired naval officer and a semifinalist for NASA's Mercury space program, happened to be driving by a scrap yard in California in 1970 when he...

As part of the Apollo program by NASA, 24 astronauts flew nine missions to the Moon between December 1968 and December 1972. During six successful two-man landing missions, twelve men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove …

Apollo 18 was initially scheduled for launch in 1972, with the primary objective of exploring the lunar surface and conducting experiments in a region called the Copernicus crater. The planned crew for Apollo 18 consisted of Commander Richard F. Gordon, Command Module Pilot Vance D. Brand, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison H. Schmitt.

Sep 2, 2011 · After Apollo 17, NASA scheduled three more missions to the Moon—18, 19 and 20—but those were subsequently grounded. The truth about why, however, isn't stranger than fiction.

Apollo 18 (cancelled) - . Crew: Brand, Gordon, Schmitt. Support Crew: Allen, Henize, Parker. Nation: USA. Related Persons: Allen, Brand, Gordon, Henize, Parker, Schmitt. Program: Apollo. Flight: Apollo 18. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. The most likely landing site was the crater Gassendi.

Aug 30, 2020 · Apollo 18 was originally planned for February 1972. Its crew consisted of commander (CDR) Richard Gordon, command module pilot (CMP) Vance Brand, and lunar module pilot (LMP) Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a geologist. Gordon was a veteran of two previous flights, Gemini 11 and Apollo 12.

There was another possible set of crew members for this mission namely, Stuart Roosa or Edgar Mitchell as the commander, Jack R. Lousma as the command module pilot, and Don L. Lind as the lunar module pilot. On that same year, NASA also cancelled both Apollo 15 and 19 missions.