Duration of NASA's manned Apollo missions1969-1972
Apollo 7 became the first successful mission of the program, successfully entering low-earth orbit (LEO) during a mission that lasted just over ten days and twenty hours.
Between 1968 and 1972 there were 12 crewed Apollo missions, the first was Apollo 1 (originally named AS-204) which had been planned to launch on February 21, 1967, however a fire during a test run tragically killed the crew and destroyed the module. Twenty months later, the