List of people who have walked on the Moon

Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Four of them are still living as of 7 April 2020. All crewed lunar landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972 as part of the Apollo program. Most astronauts at that time came from the military services and were considered to be on active duty during their NASA service; the few exceptions were considered civilian NASA astronauts (regardless of any prior military service).

Image	No.	Name	Mission	Born	Died	Lunar EVA dates (UTC)[3]	Lunar EVAs[3]	Total EVA duration[3]	Astronaut service
	1.	Neil Armstrong	Apollo 11	(1930-08-05)August 5, 1930[4]	August 25, 2012(2012-08-25) (aged 82)	July 21, 1969[lower-alpha 1]	1	2 hours 31 minutes	NASA[lower-alpha 2]
	2.	Buzz Aldrin	Apollo 11	(1930-01-20) January 20, 1930[5]		July 21, 1969[lower-alpha 1]	1	2 hours 31 minutes	Air Force
	3.	Charles "Pete" Conrad	Apollo 12	(1930-06-02)June 2, 1930[6]	July 8, 1999(1999-07-08) (aged 69)	November 19–20, 1969	2	7 hours 45 minutes	Navy
	4.	Alan Bean	Apollo 12	(1932-03-15)March 15, 1932[7]	May 26, 2018(2018-05-26) (aged 86)	November 19–20, 1969	2	7 hours 45 minutes	Navy
	5.	Alan Shepard	Apollo 14	(1923-11-18)November 18, 1923[8]	July 21, 1998(1998-07-21) (aged 74)	February 5–6, 1971	2	9 hours 21 minutes	Navy
	6.	Edgar Mitchell	Apollo 14	(1930-09-17)September 17, 1930[9]	February 4, 2016(2016-02-04) (aged 85)	February 5–6, 1971	2	9 hours 21 minutes	Navy
	7.	David Scott	Apollo 15	(1932-06-06) June 6, 1932[10]		July 31–August 2, 1971	3	18 hours 33 minutes	Air Force
	8.	James Irwin	Apollo 15	(1930-03-17)March 17, 1930[11]	September 8, 1991(1991-09-08) (aged 61)	July 31–August 2, 1971	3	18 hours 33 minutes	Air Force
	9.	John Young	Apollo 16	(1930-09-24)September 24, 1930[12]	January 5, 2018(2018-01-05) (aged 87)	April 21–23, 1972	3	20 hours 14 minutes	Navy
	10.	Charles Duke	Apollo 16	(1935-10-03) October 3, 1935[13]		April 21–23, 1972	3	20 hours 14 minutes	Air Force
	11.[lower-alpha 3]	Gene Cernan	Apollo 17	(1934-03-14)March 14, 1934[14]	January 16, 2017(2017-01-16) (aged 82)	December 11–14, 1972	3	22 hours 2 minutes	Navy
	12.	Harrison Schmitt	Apollo 17	(1935-07-03) July 3, 1935[15]		December 11–14, 1972	3	22 hours 2 minutes	NASA

Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were scheduled to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, but the lunar landing was aborted following a major malfunction en route to the Moon.[16] Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970.

NASA announced in July 2019 plans for another man and the first woman to walk on the Moon during Artemis 3 in 2024.[17][18]

Armstrong descended the lunar module ladder and spoke his famous epigram, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."[19] He then went to work on collecting the contingency sample, which was a scoop of the lunar surface collected early in the mission in case there was an emergency.[20] Armstrong took the TV camera off the lunar module and mounted it to a tripod.[21] After that, Aldrin descended the ladder to join Armstrong.[22] Aldrin egressed to the surface about nine minutes after Armstrong.[23] They had some trouble planting the American flag into the lunar soil, but were able to secure it into the surface. Aldrin positioned himself in front of a video camera and began experimenting with different locomotion techniques on the surface.[24] During these experiments, Armstrong and Aldrin received a phone call from President Nixon, congratulating them for the successful landing.[25]

Aldrin then set to work documenting the condition of the spacecraft to ensure it was in proper condition for their upcoming launch. After setting up a couple of experiments with Armstrong, Aldrin went to work hammering a tube into the lunar surface to obtain a core sample.[26] Aldrin's EVA ended when they loaded the lunar samples into the spacecraft and tossed out unneeded items, just before sealing the hatch.[21] Armstrong performed the majority of the photography on the surface, which is why there are only five photos of him on the Moon.[27]

Soon after piloting the LM Falcon to a landing at Hadley Rille, Scott accomplished the only stand-up EVA through the lander's top hatch, using it as a high place from which to refine the geology traverses he and Irwin would undertake during the following days. Scott became the first to drive a vehicle on the Moon as he drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle, more than doubling Apollo 14's EVA time. After the final traverse, back outside the LM, Scott performed a demonstration of Galileo's theory that all objects fall at the same rate in vacuum by dropping a hammer and a feather for the television camera.

Irwin came onto the lunar surface soon after his commander, Scott. As the LRV's first passenger, he had an often rough ride as Scott swerved to avoid craters.[28] It was Irwin who, during the second EVA, first spotted the Genesis Rock and aided Scott in collecting this bit of the early lunar crust.[29] A man of deep Christian religious faith, Irwin quoted from Psalms while on the lunar surface and later became an evangelist.[30]

• List of Apollo astronauts

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