Who Walked On The Moon? 🧑🚀
List of Apollo Astronauts Who Walked On The Moon 🧑🚀
How many astronauts have walked on the moon? Of the 12 people who walked on the moon, just four remain alive today; Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke and Jack Schmitt. The first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong on 21 July 1969. The last man who walked on the moon was Eugene Cernan – just three years, five months later.
- ADDucation’s list of Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon compiled by Joe Connor, last updated .
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| Astronaut 🧑🚀 | Moonwalk/s | Mission | H:M:S on Moon | Born | Died | Famous Astronaut Quotes & Trivia | # |
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| Armstrong, Neil | 21 July 1969 | Apollo 11 | 21:31:20 | 5 Aug 1930 | 25 Aug 2012 | Neil Armstrong was the first man who walked on the moon. Armstrong also flew on Gemini 8. On landing on the moon Armstrong famously said:
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| Aldrin, Buzz | 21 July 1969 | Apollo 11 | 21:31:20 | 20 Jan 1930 | – | Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. Aldrin also flew on Gemini 12. Aldrin was the first person to urinate on the moon. Buzz Aldrin had the first conversation on the moon with Neil Armstrong:
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Conrad, Charles Pete |
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Apollo 12 | 31:31:12 | 2 Jun 1930 | 8 Jul 1999 | Pete Conrad was the third man to walk on the moon. Conrad also flew on Gemini 5, Gemini 11 and Skylab 4 missions. As Conrad stepped off the ladder onto the moon he said:
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| Bean, Alan LaVern |
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Apollo 12 | 31:31:12 | 15 Mar 1932 | 26 May 2018 | Alan Bean was the fourth man to walk on the moon. Bean installed the first nuclear power generator station on the Moon. Bean also flew on the Skylab 3 mission. | 4 |
Shepard Jr., Alan AlBartlett |
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Apollo 14 | 33:30:29 | 8 Nov 1923 | 21 Jul 1998 | Alan Shepard became the first American in space on 5 May 1961 aboard the Freedom 7 mission. Interestingly the Thunderbirds TV puppet show character Alan Tracy was named after him. Alan Shepard was the fifth man to walk on the moon and holds two other moon records:
After walking away from the lunar lander Alan Shepard said:
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Mitchell, Edgar Ed |
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Apollo 14 | 33:30:29 | 17 Sep 1930 | 4 Feb 2016 | Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, and the first to throw a javelin. After retiring from NASA in 1972 he set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences which conducts parapsychological research. On stepping onto the moon Ed Mitchell said:
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Scott, David Dave |
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Apollo 15 | 66:54:53 | 6 Jun 1932 | – | David DaveScott was the seventh man to walk on the moon and the first driver on the moon. He dropped a hammer and a feather simultaneously to prove one of Galileo’s theories. Scott also flew on the Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 missions. On his return Scott said:
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Irwin, James Benson Jim |
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Apollo 15 | 66:54:53 | 17 Mar 1930 | 8 Aug 1991 | James JimIrwin was the eighth man to walk on the moon and, sadly, the first of the 12 moon walkers to pass away. After retiring from NASA he founded his High Flight Ministry in 1972. In an interview with the NY Times James Irwin said he had an epiphany on the moon:
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| Young, John |
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Apollo 16 | 71:02:13 | 2 Sep 1930 | 5 Jan 2018 | John Young flew six missions: Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1 and STS-9 – the most spacecraft in history. John Young was the ninth man to walk on he moon and he also holds two other records:
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Duke Jr., Charles Charlie |
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Apollo 16 | 71:02:13 | 3 Oct 1935 | – | Charles Duke Junior, aged 36 years 201 days, is the youngest man who walked on the moon. CharlieDuke has devoted his life to Christianity and while on the moon he said:
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Cernan, Eugene Gene |
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Apollo 17 | 74:59:40 | 14 Mar 1934 | 16 Jan 2017 | Eugene GeneCernan was the eleventh man who walked on the moon. Cernan also flew on the Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions. Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon and poignantly marked man’s last step off the moon with:
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Schmitt, Harrison Jack |
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Apollo 17 | 74:59:40 | 3 Jul 1935 | – | Harrison Schmitt was the twelfth man who walked on the moon. As a geologist he’s the only professional scientist to walk on the moon. Jack Schmitt became famous for taking the Blue Marblepicture of Earth, which has become the most reproduced photograph in human history! Schmitt and Cernan sung a snippet of The Fountain in the Parksong together on the Moon:
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See also: Apollo missions list including Apollo moon landings… | Facts about the Moon…
At the turn of the millennium Eugene said:
I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
Has a woman ever walked on the moon?
NASA’s six successful manned Apollo moon landings were all crewed by male US astronauts. All nine Apollo moon missions had three crew members. Three astronauts flew to the Moon twice, which means 24 different people have orbited the moon. The Upcoming NASA Artemis missions plan to land the first woman on the moon and the first person of color on the moon.
Apollo 11 Moon Landing – Neil Armstrong’s Story
Less than 20% of people alive today were alive when men walked on the moon. Watch Neil Armstrong’s story, as told by family and friends, about the first man to walk on the moon.
It is also true that Eugene Cernan wrote his daughter’s initials “TDC” on the surface of the moon, to last there until the moon is no more!
The dates for both Apollo 12 moonwalks are wrong, I know the landing was on the 19th of November 1969, not sure when they stepped on the moons surface.
Hi Russ, thanks for your comments. The Apollo 12 crew took two moonwalks on the 19th and 20th November 1969. I’ve also added the moonwalk dates for the other astronauts.