MANNED SPACEFLIGHT TO AND NEAR THE MOON

Nine Apollo missions went to or around the Earth's Moon. Six of these missions included actual landings on the Moon, and twelve different American men have walked on our moon. The three moon missions that did not include a landing are Apollo Eight, which was a practice run testing the navigation and other systems, Apollo Ten, which tested the lunar lander nearly all the way to the surface and then the scary Apollo Thirteen that malfunctioned on the way to the Moon and had to cancel its planned landing.

These nine missions carried 27 people, but along the way three people made the trip twice, so only 24 DIFFERENT people have been to the Moon. No one landed on the moon more than once, so the twelve people that landed are all different individuals. Of the three people that went twice to the Moon, two landed one time (Cernan and Young), and one fellow, James A. Lovell, Jr., spent both his two trips just going around the Moon.

Apollo 17  12/07/1972  Sixth landing  - Evans is Orbiting     - Landing is Cernan, Schmitt
Apollo 16  04/16/1972  Fifth landing  - Mattingly is Orbiting - Landing is Young, Duke
Apollo 15  07/26/1971  Fourth landing - Worden is Orbiting    - Landing is Scott, Irwin
Apollo 14  01/31/1971  Third landing  - Roosa is Orbiting     - Landing is Shepard, Mitchell
Apollo 13  04/11/1970  Aborts, swings around the moon - Haise, Lovell, Swigert
Apollo 12  11/14/1969  Second landing - Gordon is Orbiting    - Landing is Conrad, Bean
Apollo 11  07/16/1969  First landing  - Collins is Orbiting   - Landing is Armstrong, Aldrin
Apollo 10  05/18/1969  Manned test in Lunar orbit - Cernan, Stafford, Young
Apollo  9  03/03/1969  Manned test in Earth orbit
Apollo  8  12/21/1968  Manned test in Lunar orbit - Anders, Borman, Lovell
Apollo  7  10/11/1968  Manned test in Earth orbit

Apollo 13 happened to be the manned spacecraft that carried people the farthest from the Earth.


Below is a table showing the current status of the 24 Moon Men.
Ok means still kicking, or a date for when they passed away.


Armstrong  ok                             Anders     ok
Aldrin     ok                             Borman     ok
Conrad     07/09/1999                     Lovell     ok
Bean       ok                             Stafford   ok
Shepard    07/21/1998                     Collins    ok
Mitchell   ok                             Gordon     ok
Scott      ok                             Haise      ok
Irwin      08/08/1991                     Swigert    12/27/1982
Young      ok                             Roosa      12/12/1994
Duke       ok                             Worden     ok
Cernan     ok                             Mattingly  ok
Schmitt    ok                             Evans      04/17/1990

Go to a page on the manned programs since 2000
Go to a page on the Population of Space
Go to a page on the Shuttle fleet, and the risks of space

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