Twelve people have walked on Earth’s Moon, starting with Neil Armstrong and ending with Gene Cernan. All crewed lunar landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972 as part of the United States Apollo program. All twelve people who have walked on the Moon are American.
1 – Neil Alden Armstrong
Born-Death – August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – July 21, 1969
Lunar EVAs – 1
Total EVA duration – 2 hours 31 minutes
Astronaut service – NASA
2 – Buzz Aldrin
(born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and a former astronaut and fighter pilot. Aldrin made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and as the Apollo Lunar Module pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – July 21, 1969
Lunar EVAs – 1
Total EVA duration – 2 hours 31 minutes
Astronaut service – Air Force
3 – Charles “Pete” Conrad
Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third man to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected in NASA’s second astronaut class.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – November 19–20, 1969
Lunar EVAs – 2
Total EVA duration – 7 hours 45 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy
4 – Alan Bean
Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – November 19–20, 1969
Lunar EVAs – 2
Total EVA duration – 7 hours 45 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy
5 – Alan Shepard
Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971 he walked on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – February 5–6, 1971
Lunar EVAs – 2
Total EVA duration – 9 hours 21 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy.
6 – Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean “Ed” Mitchell (September 27, 1930 – February 4, 2016) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – February 5–6, 1971
Lunar EVAs – 2
Total EVA duration – 9 hours 21 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy
7 – David Scott
David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) (Col, USAF, Ret.) is a retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. The commander of Apollo 15, Scott was selected as an astronaut as part of the third group in 1963. Scott flew three times in space, and is the only living commander of an Apollo mission that landed on the Moon and one of four surviving Moon walkers.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – July 31–August 2, 1971
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 18 hours 33 minutes
Astronaut service – Air Force
8 – James Irwin
James Benson “Jim” Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) (Col, USAF) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Apollo Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronauts to die.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – July 31–August 2, 1971
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 18 hours 33 minutes
Astronaut service – Air Force
9 – John Young
John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted and commanded four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command and Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – April 21–23, 1972
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 20 hours 14 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy.
10 – Charles Duke
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and test pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – April 21–23, 1972
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 20 hours 14 minutes
Astronaut service – Air Force.
11 – Gene Cernan
Eugene Andrew Cernan (March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. Since he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he was the last person to walk on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – December 11–14, 1972
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 22 hours 2 minutes
Astronaut service – Navy.
12 – Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan “Jack” Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent person still living to have walked on the Moon.
Lunar EVA dates (UTC) – December 11–14, 1972
Lunar EVAs – 3
Total EVA duration – 22 hours 2 minutes
Astronaut service – NASA