<P> The Apollo program , also known as Project Apollo , was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972 . First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower 's administration as a three - man spacecraft to follow the one - man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space , Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy 's national goal of `` landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth '' by the end of the 1960s , which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25 , 1961 . </P>
<P> The Apollo program , also known as Project Apollo , was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972 . First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower 's administration as a three - man spacecraft to follow the one - man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space , Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy 's national goal of `` landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth '' by the end of the 1960s , which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25 , 1961 . </P>
what was the general purpose of the apollo missions
what was the general purpose of the apollo missions
landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth
landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth