List of Apollo astronauts facts for kids

Most of the Apollo astronauts gathered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1978. Names are included even for those not in the photo, with moonwalkers names in white and those who flew to the Moon without landing shown in dark grey. (Other names are shown in faint grey.)

NASA assigned 32 American astronauts to the Apollo lunar landing program, and 24, flying on nine missions between December 1968 and December 1972, orbited the Moon.

During six two-man landing missions twelve astronauts walked on the lunar surface, and six of those drove Lunar Roving Vehicles. Three flew to the Moon twice, one orbiting both times and two landing once apiece. From these 24 men, no human being has gone beyond low Earth orbit.

Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon

	Image	Name	Born	Died	Age at first step	Mission	Lunar EVA dates	Military service	Alma Mater
1		Neil Armstrong	(1930-08-05)August 5, 1930	August 25, 2012(2012-08-25) (aged 82)	38y 11m 15d	Apollo 11	July 21, 1969	Civilian	Purdue University, University of Southern California
2		Buzz Aldrin	(1930-01-20) January 20, 1930 (age 94)		39y 6m 0d			Air Force	United States Military Academy, MIT
3		Pete Conrad	(1930-06-02)June 2, 1930	July 8, 1999(1999-07-08) (aged 69)	39y 5m 17d	Apollo 12	November 19–20, 1969	Navy	Princeton University
4		Alan Bean	(1932-03-15)March 15, 1932	May 26, 2018(2018-05-26) (aged 86)	37y 8m 4d			Navy	University of Texas, Austin
5		Alan Shepard	(1923-11-18)November 18, 1923	July 21, 1998(1998-07-21) (aged 74)	47y 2m 18d	Apollo 14	February 5–6, 1971	Navy	United States Naval Academy, Naval War College
6		Edgar Mitchell	(1930-09-17)September 17, 1930	February 4, 2016(2016-02-04) (aged 85)	40y 4m 19d			Navy	Carnegie Mellon University, Naval Postgraduate School, MIT
7		David Scott	(1932-06-06) June 6, 1932 (age 91)		39y 1m 25d	Apollo 15	July 31 – August 2, 1971	Air Force	University of Michigan, United States Military Academy, MIT
8		James Irwin	(1930-03-17)March 17, 1930	August 8, 1991(1991-08-08) (aged 61)	41y 4m 14d			Air Force	United States Naval Academy, University of Michigan
9		John Young	(1930-09-24)September 24, 1930	January 5, 2018(2018-01-05) (aged 87)	41y 6m 28d	Apollo 16	April 21–23, 1972	Navy	Georgia Institute of Technology
10		Charles Duke	(1935-10-03) October 3, 1935 (age 88)		36y 6m 18d			Air Force	United States Naval Academy, MIT
11		Eugene Cernan	(1934-03-14)March 14, 1934	January 16, 2017(2017-01-16) (aged 82)	38y 9m 7d	Apollo 17	December 11–14, 1972	Navy	Purdue University, Naval Postgraduate School
12		Harrison Schmitt	(1935-07-03) July 3, 1935 (age 88)		37y 5m 8d			Civilian	Caltech, University of Oslo, Harvard University

Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon without landing

	Image	Name	Born	Died	Age	Mission	Military service	Notes
1		Frank Borman	(1928-03-14) March 14, 1928 (age 96)		40	Apollo 8 December 21–27, 1968	Air Force
2		Jim Lovell	(1928-03-25) March 25, 1928 (age 96)		40 42	Apollo 8 December 21–27, 1968 Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970	Navy	Intended to land on Apollo 13; only person to fly to the Moon twice without landing.
3		Bill Anders	(1933-10-17) October 17, 1933 (age 90)		35	Apollo 8 December 21–27, 1968	Air Force
4		Tom Stafford	(1930-09-17) September 17, 1930 (age 93)		38	Apollo 10 May 18–26, 1969	Air Force	Later flew on Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
5		Michael Collins	(1930-10-31) October 31, 1930 (age 93)		38	Apollo 11 July 16–24, 1969	Air Force
6		Dick Gordon	(1929-10-05)October 5, 1929	November 6, 2017(2017-11-06) (aged 88)	40	Apollo 12 November 14–24, 1969	Navy	Trained to land, slated for Apollo 18 (canceled).
7		Jack Swigert	(1931-08-30)August 30, 1931	December 27, 1982(1982-12-27) (aged 51)	38	Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970	Air Force
8		Fred Haise	(1933-11-14) November 14, 1933 (age 90)		36	Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970	Marines, Air Force	Intended to land; later trained to land and slated to command Apollo 19 (canceled); flew the Space Shuttle on approach / landing tests.
9		Stu Roosa	(1933-08-16)August 16, 1933	December 12, 1994(1994-12-12) (aged 61)	37	Apollo 14 January 31 – February 9, 1971	Air Force	In rotation to land on Apollo 20 (canceled).
10		Al Worden	(1932-02-07)February 7, 1932	March 18, 2020(2020-03-18) (aged 88)	39	Apollo 15 July 26 – August 7, 1971	Air Force
11		Ken Mattingly	(1936-03-17) March 17, 1936 (age 88)		36	Apollo 16 April 16–27, 1972	Navy	Later flew two Space Shuttle missions.
12		Ron Evans	(1933-11-10)November 10, 1933	April 7, 1990(1990-04-07) (aged 56)	39	Apollo 17 December 7–19, 1972	Navy

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Images for kids

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  Mercury Seven astronauts (L to R): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton

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  NASA Astronaut Group 2: Back row: Elliot M. See (died in Gemini training), McDivitt, Lovell, White, Stafford. Front row: Conrad, Borman, Armstrong, Young

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  NASA Astronaut Group 3

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  Group 4 – the scientist astronaut group; Harrison Schmitt (center) became NASA's first scientist astronaut to fly in space.

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  NASA Astronaut Group 5