ASA'S Apollo space program endevored to land humans on the Moon and bring them back to Earth. Six of the Apollo moon missions(Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) were credited with achieving this goal. The Apollo 7 and 9 missions were only testing missions designed by NASA in order to see if the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module operated according to plan.

These two missions did not go to the moon. Apollos 8 and 10 did not do a Moon landing but tested the onboard equiptment and the cameras sent back pictures of the Lunar surface. The Apollo 13 flight encountered probmlems and were not able to land on the moon but returned to Earth.

There were six Apollo missions that successfully landed on the moon according to NASA. These Apollo landings, according to NASA, returned to Earth with much new information, pictures and around 400 kilograms of lunar samples. Nasa says that while on the Lunar surface many experiments were done some of which were, soil mechanics, heat flow, lunar ranging, magnetic fields, and others.