How many astrounants walked on the moon?

Answer 1

Six. Apollo 11 was the first to land, on July 20 1969, followed by Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Apollo 13, of course, had an explosion on board and had to return to earth before landing on the moon. - but it did actually get to the moon (without landing on it) to use the moon's gravity as a slingshot effect to hurl it back to earth in order to conserve fuel. Apollos 8 and 10 were also manned and also went to the moon but again were not designed to land - merely to test the equipment and to look for suitable landing sites for Apollo 11. All in all 12 people (all men) have walked on the moon, 2 from each mission. Each Apollo mission had three astronauts - 2 to land on the moon and the third to remain in orbit around the moon to pick them up, and to captain the 'command module'. Although 20 Apollo missions were originally planned the US government cut funding and so the last three were scrapped.

Answer 2

None. The Space Shuttle could barely make it into space to low-Earth orbit, and could never have gone to the Moon. And since the Shuttle lands using its wings and glides in to a landing, it could never have landed on the Moon even if it could have gotten there. There's no air on the Moon, so wings don't work.

The only manned spacecraft to land on the Moon were six "Lunar Excursion Modules", or LEMs. Of those enormous Saturn V rockets, only a tiny sliver made it to the Moon - and only half of the LEM _left_ the Moon, to be abandoned once the crew was reunited in the Command Module.

Answer 3

Twelve astronauts have landed on the moon so far. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first, and Eugene Cernan and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt were the last.

By Mission

Apollo 11 -

Neil Armstrong (Commander, first person to walk on the Moon)

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (Lunar Module pilot)

Apollo 12 -

Charles Conrad, Jr. (Commander)

Alan LaVerne Bean (Lunar Module pilot)

Apollo 14 -

Alan Shepard (Commander, also first US man in space, 1961)

Edgar Mitchell (Lunar Module Pilot)

Apollo 15 -

David Scott (Commander)

James Irwin (Lunar Module pilot)

Apollo 16 -

John Young (Commander)

Charles Duke, Jr. (Lunar Module pilot)

Apollo 17 -

Eugene Cernan (Commander, last man to walk on the moon December 14, 1972)

Dr Harrison Schmitt (Lunar Module Pilot, first scientist-astronaut to land on Moon)

*For dates and other information in an easy-to-read format, use the link below. It will take you to the Wikipedia post, and there are a ton of links there for further information.

Answer 4

In all, there were 9 manned missions to the moon: Apollo missions 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. However, only 6 of these landed men on the moon: 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

Answer 5

Six Apollo missions accomplished moon landings, with two astronauts on the lunar

surface during each mission.

Another mission ... Apollo 13 ... was planning to land on the lunar surface, but

the plan changed during the flight, when hardware failed, and the survival of the

crew was judged more important than any attempt at landing.

Answer 6

That depends on who "they" is.

Apollo missions landed six vehicles on the moon between 1969 and 1972,

carrying twelve white, male, US citizen astronauts. No other human beings

have ever landed on any natural astronomical body other than Earth.

Answer 7

A total of 12 human beings have set foot on the Moon, between July 20, 1969 and December, 1972. There were six Apollo landings on the moon, with two astronauts in each mission. (A third command ship pilot remained in orbit while the landers went to the Moon.)

Answer 8

There are 12 men who have walked on the moon, 11 were astronauts and the 12th was a geologist, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.

Answer 9

12, two each from Apollo 11 to Apollo 17 excluding Apollo 13 which never made it to the moon.

Answer 10

I'm not sure that anybody ever counted them. Six missions, two men per mission, three days each - probably 10,000, perhaps 20,000. Not a whole lot more.