The final people to walk on the moon were Eugene (Gene) Cernan and Harrison (Jack) Schmitt.īefore he left the moon, Cernan scratched the initials of his daughter Tracy into the lunar regolith. When the crew reached lunar orbit, the mission almost had to be aborted because of a problem with Command/Service Module’s main engine. John Young and Charles Duke were the next men to walk on the moon. They launched on January 31, 1971, and landed in the Fra Mauro region of the moon, the original destination for Apollo 13.ĭavid Scott and James Irwin landed on the moon and stayed for three days, until August 2nd. The Apollo 12 crew experienced two lightning strikes just after their Saturn V rocket launched.Īlan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell who were part of the Apollo 14 mission.

Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the moon walkers on the Apollo 12 mission. His popular nickname gave itself to the animated characte Buzz Lightyear.ģ + 4. Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to set foot on the moon.Įdwin 'Buzz' Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong on to the surface of the moon. In total twelve people have walked on the moon. However, they all shared some common traits including 'intelligence, courage, ingenuity, a desire to be the best, and most of all, a burning commitment to accomplish whatever mission they are given.'Ĭhaikin, who personally selected all the images for the stunning new edition with his wife Victoria, says the new Artemis generation astronauts share the same traits. This includes the 12 men who actually stepped on the moon, those remaining in the capsule in lunar orbit and the engineers and support crew who made it possible.Ī new edition of this work, spread over two volumes and complete with dozens of sensational images, has been published by the Folio Society.Īuthor Andrew Chaikin spent a decade speaking to 23 of the 24 astronauts who travelled to the moon, and told MailOnline they were all very different people. Astronauts of the Artemis era, heading back to the moon this decade, are 'made of the same stuff' as the early Apollo adventurers, says the man who wrote the book on the first human lunar landings.Ī Man on the Moon was first published in 1994 and tells the story of the real life adventurers that set foot on the surface of the moon for NASA.

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