1. Neil Armstrong

    Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and naval aviator. He was the first human being to set foot on an extraterrestrial world (The Moon). His first spaceflight was "Gemini 8" in 1966, for which he was the command pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott.

  2. Edgar Mitchell

    Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14 mission on February 9 1971. The mission was NASA's third manned Moon landing. Mitchell was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, …

  3. Alan Bean

    Captain Bean shows why as human beings from the Planet Earth we are the most extraordinary creatures in the universe. We are unique because as far as we know we are the only beings in the universe whose only limits are those we place on ourselves. As a NASA Astronaut, Bean learned that people did not have to be extra gifted or extra talented to do something great.

  4. Alan Shepard

    Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the second person and the first American astronaut in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth man to walk on the moon.

  5. John Young

    John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on April 21, 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission. Young enjoyed one of the longest and busiest careers of any astronaut in the American space program. He was the first person to fly into space six times, twice journeyed to the Moon, and as of 2007, …

  6. Harrison Schmitt

    Dr. Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a retired geologist, astronaut and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the twelfth and one of the last two people to walk on the moon. Harrison Schmitt is also credited with taking the photograph of the earth called "Blue Moon".

  7. Eugene Cernan

    Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA).

  8. Pete Conrad

    Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 - July 8, 1999), was an American astronaut and the third man to walk on the moon. He served on Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2 missions, and may have been scheduled for the Apollo 20 mission, which was cancelled.

  9. David Scott

    Colonel David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is a former NASA astronaut, was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963, and as commander of the Apollo 15 mission is one of only twelve men who have walked on the moon. He was born on Randolph Air Force Base (after which he was named) near San Antonio, Texas and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.

  10. James Irwin

    James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 - August 8, 1991) was a member of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and the eighth man to walk on the Moon. After health complications during the Apollo 15 mission forced him into retirement, James Irwin would go on to create High Flight a Christian youth organization. Irwin was one of 19 Astronauts selected by NASA in 1966 where he was the lunar module pilot. Irwin quoted the bible after landing on the Moon.

  11. Buzz Aldrin

    Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on "Apollo 11", the first lunar landing. He became the second person to set foot on the Moon (after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong).

  12. Charles Moss Duke Jr.

    Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born 3 October 1935), a retired USAF Brigadier General, was a United States astronaut for NASA. He is one of only twelve men who have walked on the moon. Duke is married to the former Dorothy Meade Claiborne, and has two sons, Charles III born in 1965 and Thomas born in 1967, and five grandchildren. He and his wife reside in New Braunfels, Texas. His brother, William Duke, is a retired physician, whom still resides in Lancaster, SC. His niece, …