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when did apollo 13 land on the moon It did not land on the Moon. It looped and returned safely to Earth what is this? Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. what is the backdrop of this? In 1961, U.S. President, "John F. Kennedy" challenged his nation to land an astronaut on the Moon by the end of the decade, with a safe return to Earth. NASA worked towards this goal incrementally, sending astronauts into space during Project Mercury and Project Gemini, leading up to the Apollo program. what is the former project all about? Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. which organisation was it a part of? The group responsible was NASA's "Space Task Group". what is this organisation you just mentioned? The "Space Task Group" was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with managing America's human spaceflight programs. who founded this group? Robert Gilruth
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Space Task Group [SEP] History
Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers", the occupational title for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines. Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center, and 10 had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers.