History of spaceflight out by NASA. The programs goal was to orbit and land manned vehicles on the moon. The program ran from 1969 to 1972. Apollo 8 was the first manned spaceflight to leave earth orbit and orbit the Earth's moon on December 21, 1968. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. The Skylab programs goal was to create the first space station of NASA. The program marked the last launch of the Saturn V rocket on May 19, 1973. Many experiments were performed on
The First Men in the Moon (2010 film) The First Men in the Moon (2010 film) The First Men in the Moon, also promoted as H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, is a 2010 made for TV drama written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Damon Thomas, that stars Gatiss as Cavor and Rory Kinnear as Bedford, with Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes, Katherine Jakeways, Lee Ingleby and Julia Deakin. "The First Men on the Moon" was first broadcast on 19 October 2010 on BBC Four. It is an adaptation of H. G. Wells' science fiction novel of the same name. This is the third collaboration between