The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 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, which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. We looked at each of the Apollo missions & crews, from the tragedy of Apollo 1 to the triumph of Apollo 11 and the final lunar mission, Apollo 16. As one astronaut observed, you can't see Earth's man-made geographic boundaries from space. What's visible is our "oneness" as a planet, the Earth's beauty and the need for its inhabitants to take care of the planet and each other.