File:Saturn V launches+destinations.jpg

English: All Saturn V launches - created by Reubenbarton using Paint Shop Pro. The collage has been extended by Tdadamemd using Gimp with color coded bars at the top to indicate the destination of each mission:

Earth Orbit = Blue
Lunar Orbit = Grey
Lunar Landing = White

Notes: Apollo 4, 6 and Skylab were launched with no crew, with Skylab later being docked with by crews. Apollo 13 was planned as a landing mission, however it did not achieve lunar orbit, making only a circumlunar pass.

The individual launch images came from the NASA Image eXchange (NIX) web site:

http://nix.nasa.gov/

downloaded from en.wikipedia, original uploader was Reubenbarton

After Gus Grissom on the first piloted Gemini mission named his spacecraft "Molly Brown" (a sarcastic reference to The Unsinkable Molly Brown, after his Mercury spacecraft had sunk) NASA put a stop to the convention of astronauts giving their spaceships nicknames. The callsigns used were strictly the mission number. And this continued into the Apollo program through the first two piloted missions. However, the need to have separate callsigns arose for the situation where two spacecraft in the same mission would be flying independently. So to coordinate communications between the Command Module and Lunar Module, the spacecraft naming tradition was restarted beginning with Apollo 9:

       Spacecraft Nicknames
 
 Mission    CSM/CM          LM
Apollo 8    (None)         (N/A)
Apollo 9   Gumdrop        Spider
Apollo 10  Charlie Brown  Snoopy
Apollo 11  Columbia       Eagle
Apollo 12  Yankee Clipper Intrepid
Apollo 13  Odyssey        Aquarius
Apollo 14  Kitty Hawk     Antares
Apollo 15  Endeavour      Falcon
Apollo 16  Casper         Orion
Apollo 17  America        Challenger
Skylab      (N/A)          (N/A)