Aˈpollo ˌProgram
the US government space programme to send people to the Moon, which succeeded in 1969 when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the Moon. Apollo 13 was a later unsuccessful attempt to land on the Moon again, and the words one of the astronauts used when he thought something was going wrong, ‘Houston, we have a problem’, are sometimes now used in a humorous way. ⇒ NEIL ARMSTRONG, Gemini Program, Houston, Mercury program

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