Kennedy Space Center Apollo 8's lunar orbiting mission. The next two missions tested the Lunar Module: Apollo 9 (Earth orbit) and Apollo 10 (lunar orbit). Apollo 11, launched from Pad A on July 16, 1969, made the first Moon landing on July 20. Apollo 12 followed four months later. From 1970–1972, the Apollo program concluded at KSC with the launches of missions 13 through 17. On May 14, 1973, the last Saturn V launch put the Skylab space station in orbit from Pad 39A. By this time, the Cape Kennedy pads 34 and 37 used for the Saturn IB were decommissioned, so Pad
Halo orbit 1996. It used an orbit similar to ISEE-3. Although several other missions since then have traveled to Lagrange points, they typically have used the related non-periodic variations called Lissajous orbits than an actual halo orbit. For example, Genesis, launched in 2001, which also pioneered the use of dynamical systems theory to find low-energy transfers to and from its orbit. In May 2018, Farquhar's original idea was finally realized when China placed the first communications relay satellite into a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon point. In January 2019, the Chang'e 4 spacecraft is scheduled to land in the Von Kármán crater