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Calculated Shard: 42 (from laksa024)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa042.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/12-men-who-walked-moon-n707951\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/12-men-who-walked-moon-n707951\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/slideshow\/12-men-who-walked-moon-n707951","crawl_time":1776113703,"first_indexed_time":1506281569,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nbcnews!www,\/slideshow\/12-men-who-walked-moon-n707951 s443","src_root_hash":"3867714919315588842","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The 12 men who walked on the moon","meta_descriptions":["From 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Space\nFrom 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite.\nNeil Armstrong\nNeil Armstrong stepped into history on July 20, 1969, leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon. \n—NASA \/ Getty Images\n\"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\" Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but\nin interviews he claimed\nthat he meant to say \"one small step for\na\nman.\"\nArmstrong\ndied in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. \nAt left:\n Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon. \n—NASA via EPA\nBuzz Aldrin\n—Neil Armstrong \/ NASA via Reuters\nA young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016. \nAldrin\n, now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered.\n—NASA; PA Wire\nAlan Bean and Charles Conrad\nApollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969.\nConrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. \n—Charles Conrad \/ NASA\nCharles \"Pete\" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965  before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5.\nConrad\ndied after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69. \nApollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right. \nBean\nresigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, a\nt the age of 86,\nafter suddenly falling ill while travelling.\n—NASA\n—Jacquelyn Martin \/ AP\nEdgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971.\nThe photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment. \n—NASA\nThe crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon.\nMitchell\ndied at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA,\nMitchell devoted his life\nto exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. \nShepard\ndied in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961. \n—NASA via AP\nJames Irwin and David Scott\nJames Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971.\nThe lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain. \n—David Scott \/ NASA\nJames Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971. \nIrwin\nresigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991. \nA personal watch that\nScott\nwore while walking on the moon\nsold for a whopping $1.625 million\nat auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932. \n—George Brich \/ AP\nCharles Duke and John Young\nCharles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972.\nJohn Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater. \n—John Young \/ NASA\nThe Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972.\nFrom left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon.\nAt 36,\nDuke\n was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935. \n—NASA\nJohn Young\n was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.\nYoung was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87. \nLeft: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot. \nRight: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972. \nRelated: John Young, legendary \nNASA\n astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87\n—NASA\nHarrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan\n—Eugene Cernan \/ NASA\nEugene Cernan, left, and Harrison \"Jack\" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972. \nSchmitt,\nborn in 1935,\n \nwas the first person initially\ntrained as a scientist\nto walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots.  \n—Ronald Evans \/ NASA\nApollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972. \nCernan\n, the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas. \nRelated:\nGene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82\n—Harrison Schmitt \/ NASA via EPA\n1\n\/17","attrs_markdown":"IE 11 is not supported. 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[Space](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space)\n# The 12 men who walked on the moon\nFrom 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite.\n\n\/\n\nUpdated July 20, 2019 \/ 8:20 AM UTC\n\n17PHOTOS\n\n![Image: 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Mission](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868076\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-01.jpg)\n\n## Neil Armstrong\nNeil Armstrong stepped into history on July 20, 1969, leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon.\n\n—NASA \/ Getty Images\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: Neil Armstrong](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868081\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-02.jpg)\n\n##\n\"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\" Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but [in interviews he claimed](http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/30\/16252879-how-neil-armstrong-practiced-that-one-small-step-line-for-the-moon) that he meant to say \"one small step for **a** man.\"\n\n**Armstrong** died in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.\n\nAt left: Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon.\n\n—NASA via EPA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to the Lunar Module Eagle](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868086\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-aldrin-mn-03.jpg)\n\n## Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, stands next to the lunar module \"Eagle\" on July 20, 1969.\n\nNeil Armstrong can be seen taking the picture in the reflection on the helmet.\n\n[Apollo 11 from launch to lunar landing: Photos from the first journey to the moon](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/eagle-has-landed-remembering-apollo-11-moon-mission-ncsl892566)\n\n—Neil Armstrong \/ NASA via Reuters\n\n- Share\n\n![](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868091\/170117-buzz-aldrin-04.jpg)\n\n##\nA young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016.\n\n**Aldrin**, now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered.\n\n—NASA; PA Wire\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_21\/1868096\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg)\n\n## Alan Bean and Charles Conrad\nApollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969.\n\nConrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor.\n\n—Charles Conrad \/ NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868101\/170117-conrad-bean-06.jpg)\n\n##\nCharles \"Pete\" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965 before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5.\n\n**Conrad** died after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69.\n\nApollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right.\n\n**Bean** resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling.\n\n—NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Alan Bean](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_22\/2446696\/ss-180528-alan-bean-mn-1130.jpg)\n\n##\nAlan Bean sits by two of his paintings at an exhibition of his artwork at the National Air and Space Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing in 2009.\n\n[Related: Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, dead at 86](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/news\/nasa-astronaut-alan-bean-fourth-man-walk-moon-dead-86-ncna877796)\n\n—Jacquelyn Martin \/ AP\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868106\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mitchell-mn-07.jpg)\n\n## Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971.\n\nThe photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment.\n\n—NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868111\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mn-08.jpg)\n\n##\nThe crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon.\n\n**Mitchell** died at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA, [Mitchell devoted his life](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/astronaut-edgar-mitchell-6th-man-moon-dies-florida-n512511) to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens.\n\n**Shepard** died in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961.\n\n—NASA via AP\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868116\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-mn-09.jpg)\n\n## James Irwin and David Scott\nJames Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971.\n\nThe lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain.\n\n—David Scott \/ NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868121\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-scott-mn-10.jpg)\n\n##\nJames Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971.\n\n**Irwin** resigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991.\n\nA personal watch that **Scott** wore while walking on the moon [sold for a whopping \\$1.625 million](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/astronaut-watch-went-moon-back-sells-1-6-million-n450391) at auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932.\n\n—George Brich \/ AP\n\n- Share\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868126\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-mn-11.jpg)\n\n## Charles Duke and John Young\nCharles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972.\n\nJohn Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater.\n\n—John Young \/ NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: Apollo 16](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/2285316\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-young-mn-13_4ab9d6157471991d017cef5b8e90ef5d.jpg)\n\n##\nThe Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972.\n\nFrom left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon.\n\nAt 36, **Duke** was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935.\n\n—NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: John Young](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/2285326\/180108-john-young-astronaut-mn-0958.jpg)\n\n##\n**John Young** was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.\n\nYoung was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87.\n\nLeft: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot.\n\nRight: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972.\n\n[Related: John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/john-young-legendary-astronaut-who-walked-moon-dies-87-n835226)\n\n—NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868136\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-mn-14.jpg)\n\n## Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan\nHarrison Schmitt stands next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 moonwalk with Eugene Cernan in December 1972.\n\n**[Photos:](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/slideshow\/technologyandscience\/50-years-of-views-from-the-moon-50103927\/) [Apollo 17, the Last Moonshot](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/slideshow\/technologyandscience\/50-years-of-views-from-the-moon-50103927\/)**\n\n—Eugene Cernan \/ NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: US-SPACE-OBIT-NASA-CERNAN](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868141\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-15.jpg)\n\n##\nEugene Cernan, left, and Harrison \"Jack\" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972.\n\n**Schmitt,** born in 1935,was the first person initially [trained as a scientist](http:\/\/www.space.com\/20789-harrison-schmitt-astronaut-biography.html) to walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots.\n\n—Ronald Evans \/ NASA\n\n- Share\n\n![Image: Eugene Cernan dead at 82](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868146\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-16.jpg)\n\n##\nApollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972.\n\n**Cernan**, the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas.\n\n**[Related:](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) [Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541)**\n\n—Harrison Schmitt \/ NASA via EPA\n\n- Share\n\n1\/17\n\n- [About](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/about-nbc-news-digital-n1232178)\n- [Contact](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/contact-us-n1232521)\n- [Help](https:\/\/nbcnews.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us)\n- [Careers](https:\/\/www.nbcunicareers.com\/)\n- [Ad Choices](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy\/cookies#accordionheader2)\n- [Privacy Policy](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy?intake=NBC_News)\n- [Your Privacy Choices](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/privacy\/notrtoo\/?intake=NBC_News)\n- [CA Notice](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy\/california-consumer-privacy-act?intake=NBC_News)\n- [Terms of Service](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/terms)\n- [NBC News Subscription Terms of Service](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/subscribe\/supplemental-terms)\n- [NBC News Sitemap](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/archive)\n- [Closed Captioning](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/closed-captioning-n1307063)\n- [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/subscribe)\n- [Advertise](https:\/\/together.nbcuni.com\/advertise\/?utm_source=nbc_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=property_ad_pages)\n- [NBC Select](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/select)\n\n© 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC","attrs_readable_markdown":"![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-360x700,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_21\/1868096\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg)\n\n## [Space](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space)\nFrom 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite.\n\n![Image: 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Mission](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868076\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-01.jpg)\n\n## Neil Armstrong\nNeil Armstrong stepped into history on July 20, 1969, leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon.\n\n—NASA \/ Getty Images\n\n![Image: Neil Armstrong](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868081\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-02.jpg)\n\n\"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,\" Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but [in interviews he claimed](http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/30\/16252879-how-neil-armstrong-practiced-that-one-small-step-line-for-the-moon) that he meant to say \"one small step for **a** man.\"\n\n**Armstrong** died in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.\n\nAt left: Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon.\n\n—NASA via EPA\n\n![Image: NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to the Lunar Module Eagle](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868086\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-aldrin-mn-03.jpg)\n\n## Buzz Aldrin\n—Neil Armstrong \/ NASA via Reuters\n\n![](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868091\/170117-buzz-aldrin-04.jpg)\n\nA young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016.\n\n**Aldrin**, now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered.\n\n—NASA; PA Wire\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_21\/1868096\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg)\n\n## Alan Bean and Charles Conrad\nApollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969.\n\nConrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor.\n\n—Charles Conrad \/ NASA\n\n![](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868101\/170117-conrad-bean-06.jpg)\n\nCharles \"Pete\" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965 before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5.\n\n**Conrad** died after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69.\n\nApollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right.\n\n**Bean** resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling.\n\n—NASA\n\n![Alan Bean](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_22\/2446696\/ss-180528-alan-bean-mn-1130.jpg)\n\n—Jacquelyn Martin \/ AP\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868106\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mitchell-mn-07.jpg)\n\n## Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971.\n\nThe photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment.\n\n—NASA\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868111\/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mn-08.jpg)\n\nThe crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon.\n\n**Mitchell** died at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA, [Mitchell devoted his life](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/astronaut-edgar-mitchell-6th-man-moon-dies-florida-n512511) to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens.\n\n**Shepard** died in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961.\n\n—NASA via AP\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/1868116\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-mn-09.jpg)\n\n## James Irwin and David Scott\nJames Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971.\n\nThe lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain.\n\n—David Scott \/ NASA\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868121\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-scott-mn-10.jpg)\n\nJames Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971.\n\n**Irwin** resigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991.\n\nA personal watch that **Scott** wore while walking on the moon [sold for a whopping \\$1.625 million](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/astronaut-watch-went-moon-back-sells-1-6-million-n450391) at auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932.\n\n—George Brich \/ AP\n\n![Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868126\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-mn-11.jpg)\n\n## Charles Duke and John Young\nCharles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972.\n\nJohn Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater.\n\n—John Young \/ NASA\n\n![Image: Apollo 16](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/2285316\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-young-mn-13_4ab9d6157471991d017cef5b8e90ef5d.jpg)\n\nThe Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972.\n\nFrom left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon.\n\nAt 36, **Duke** was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935.\n\n—NASA\n\n![Image: John Young](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2018_02\/2285326\/180108-john-young-astronaut-mn-0958.jpg)\n\n**John Young** was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.\n\nYoung was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87.\n\nLeft: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot.\n\nRight: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972.\n\n[Related: John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/john-young-legendary-astronaut-who-walked-moon-dies-87-n835226)\n\n—NASA\n\n![Image: Image:](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868136\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-mn-14.jpg)\n\n## Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan\n—Eugene Cernan \/ NASA\n\n![Image: US-SPACE-OBIT-NASA-CERNAN](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868141\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-15.jpg)\n\nEugene Cernan, left, and Harrison \"Jack\" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972.\n\n**Schmitt,** born in 1935,was the first person initially [trained as a scientist](http:\/\/www.space.com\/20789-harrison-schmitt-astronaut-biography.html) to walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots.\n\n—Ronald Evans \/ NASA\n\n![Image: Eugene Cernan dead at 82](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2017_03\/1868146\/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-16.jpg)\n\nApollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972.\n\n**Cernan**, the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas.\n\n**[Related:](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) [Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82](http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541)**\n\n—Harrison Schmitt \/ NASA via EPA\n\n1\/17","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Space From 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite. Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong stepped into history on July 20, 1969, leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon. —NASA / Getty Images "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but in interviews he claimed that he meant to say "one small step for a man." Armstrong died in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. At left: Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon. —NASA via EPA Buzz Aldrin —Neil Armstrong / NASA via Reuters A young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016. Aldrin , now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered. —NASA; PA Wire Alan Bean and Charles Conrad Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969. Conrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. —Charles Conrad / NASA Charles "Pete" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965 before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5. Conrad died after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69. Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right. Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, a t the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling. —NASA —Jacquelyn Martin / AP Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971. The photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment. —NASA The crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon. Mitchell died at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA, Mitchell devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. Shepard died in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961. —NASA via AP James Irwin and David Scott James Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971. The lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain. —David Scott / NASA James Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971. Irwin resigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991. A personal watch that Scott wore while walking on the moon sold for a whopping $1.625 million at auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932. —George Brich / AP Charles Duke and John Young Charles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972. John Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater. —John Young / NASA The Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972. From left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon. At 36, Duke was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935. —NASA John Young was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. Young was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87. Left: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot. Right: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972. Related: John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87 —NASA Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan —Eugene Cernan / NASA Eugene Cernan, left, and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972. Schmitt, born in 1935, was the first person initially trained as a scientist to walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots. —Ronald Evans / NASA Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972. Cernan , the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas. Related: Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82 —Harrison Schmitt / NASA via EPA 1 /17
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Share ![Image: Neil Armstrong](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868081/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-02.jpg) ## "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but [in interviews he claimed](http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/30/16252879-how-neil-armstrong-practiced-that-one-small-step-line-for-the-moon) that he meant to say "one small step for a man." Armstrong died in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. At left: Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon. —NASA via EPA - Share ![Image: NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to the Lunar Module Eagle](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868086/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-aldrin-mn-03.jpg) ## Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, stands next to the lunar module "Eagle" on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong can be seen taking the picture in the reflection on the helmet. [Apollo 11 from launch to lunar landing: Photos from the first journey to the moon](https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/eagle-has-landed-remembering-apollo-11-moon-mission-ncsl892566) —Neil Armstrong / NASA via Reuters - Share ![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868091/170117-buzz-aldrin-04.jpg) ## A young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016. Aldrin, now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered. —NASA; PA Wire - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_21/1868096/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg) ## Alan Bean and Charles Conrad Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969. Conrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. —Charles Conrad / NASA - Share ![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868101/170117-conrad-bean-06.jpg) ## Charles "Pete" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965 before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5. Conrad died after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69. Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right. Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling. —NASA - Share ![Alan Bean](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_22/2446696/ss-180528-alan-bean-mn-1130.jpg) ## Alan Bean sits by two of his paintings at an exhibition of his artwork at the National Air and Space Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing in 2009. [Related: Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, dead at 86](https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/news/nasa-astronaut-alan-bean-fourth-man-walk-moon-dead-86-ncna877796) —Jacquelyn Martin / AP - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868106/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mitchell-mn-07.jpg) ## Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971. The photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment. —NASA - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868111/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mn-08.jpg) ## The crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon. Mitchell died at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA, [Mitchell devoted his life](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/astronaut-edgar-mitchell-6th-man-moon-dies-florida-n512511) to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. Shepard died in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961. —NASA via AP - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868116/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-mn-09.jpg) ## James Irwin and David Scott James Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971. The lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain. —David Scott / NASA - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868121/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-scott-mn-10.jpg) ## James Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971. Irwin resigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991. A personal watch that Scott wore while walking on the moon [sold for a whopping \$1.625 million](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/astronaut-watch-went-moon-back-sells-1-6-million-n450391) at auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932. —George Brich / AP - Share ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868126/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-mn-11.jpg) ## Charles Duke and John Young Charles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972. John Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater. —John Young / NASA - Share ![Image: Apollo 16](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/2285316/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-young-mn-13_4ab9d6157471991d017cef5b8e90ef5d.jpg) ## The Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972. From left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon. At 36, Duke was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935. —NASA - Share ![Image: John Young](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/2285326/180108-john-young-astronaut-mn-0958.jpg) ## John Young was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. Young was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87. Left: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot. Right: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972. [Related: John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/john-young-legendary-astronaut-who-walked-moon-dies-87-n835226) —NASA - Share ![Image: Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868136/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-mn-14.jpg) ## Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan Harrison Schmitt stands next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 moonwalk with Eugene Cernan in December 1972. [Photos:](http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/technologyandscience/50-years-of-views-from-the-moon-50103927/) [Apollo 17, the Last Moonshot](http://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/technologyandscience/50-years-of-views-from-the-moon-50103927/) —Eugene Cernan / NASA - Share ![Image: US-SPACE-OBIT-NASA-CERNAN](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868141/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-15.jpg) ## Eugene Cernan, left, and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972. Schmitt, born in 1935,was the first person initially [trained as a scientist](http://www.space.com/20789-harrison-schmitt-astronaut-biography.html) to walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots. —Ronald Evans / NASA - Share ![Image: Eugene Cernan dead at 82](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868146/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-16.jpg) ## Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972. Cernan, the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas. [Related:](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) [Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) —Harrison Schmitt / NASA via EPA - Share 1/17 - [About](https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/about-nbc-news-digital-n1232178) - [Contact](https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/contact-us-n1232521) - [Help](https://nbcnews.zendesk.com/hc/en-us) - [Careers](https://www.nbcunicareers.com/) - [Ad Choices](https://www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com/privacy/cookies#accordionheader2) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com/privacy?intake=NBC_News) - [Your Privacy Choices](https://www.nbcuniversal.com/privacy/notrtoo/?intake=NBC_News) - [CA Notice](https://www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com/privacy/california-consumer-privacy-act?intake=NBC_News) - [Terms of Service](https://www.nbcuniversal.com/terms) - [NBC News Subscription Terms of Service](https://www.nbcnews.com/subscribe/supplemental-terms) - [NBC News Sitemap](https://www.nbcnews.com/archive) - [Closed Captioning](https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/closed-captioning-n1307063) - [Subscribe](https://www.nbcnews.com/subscribe) - [Advertise](https://together.nbcuni.com/advertise/?utm_source=nbc_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=property_ad_pages) - [NBC Select](https://www.nbcnews.com/select) © 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC
Readable Markdown	![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_focal-360x700,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_21/1868096/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg) ## [Space](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space) From 1969 to 1972, twelve men stepped foot on Earth's natural satellite. ![Image: 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Mission](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868076/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-01.jpg) ## Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong stepped into history on July 20, 1969, leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon. —NASA / Getty Images ![Image: Neil Armstrong](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868081/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-armstrong-mn-02.jpg) "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong is famously quoted as saying after walking on the moon, but [in interviews he claimed](http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/30/16252879-how-neil-armstrong-practiced-that-one-small-step-line-for-the-moon) that he meant to say "one small step for a man." Armstrong died in 2012 at age 82 following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. At left: Armstrong sits inside the lunar module after his historic walk on the surface of the moon. —NASA via EPA ![Image: NASA file image shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to the Lunar Module Eagle](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868086/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-aldrin-mn-03.jpg) ## Buzz Aldrin —Neil Armstrong / NASA via Reuters ![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868091/170117-buzz-aldrin-04.jpg) A young Buzz Aldrin poses in a NASA photograph at left. At right, Aldrin speaks in London in 2016. Aldrin, now 89, was medically evacuated from the South Pole in December 2016 after suffering symptoms of altitude sickness, but quickly recovered. —NASA; PA Wire ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_21/1868096/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-bean-mn-05.jpg) ## Alan Bean and Charles Conrad Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a container filled with lunar soil during a moonwalk with Charles Conrad, Jr., in November 1969. Conrad, who took this picture, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor. —Charles Conrad / NASA ![](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868101/170117-conrad-bean-06.jpg) Charles "Pete" Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, poses at left in 1965 before his first space flight aboard Gemini 5. Conrad died after a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California, in 1999. He was 69. Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean poses in 1969 at right. Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his time to painting. He died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 86, after suddenly falling ill while travelling. —NASA ![Alan Bean](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_22/2446696/ss-180528-alan-bean-mn-1130.jpg) —Jacquelyn Martin / AP ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868106/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mitchell-mn-07.jpg) ## Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell, left, conducts a seismic experiment during the first Apollo 14 moonwalk with Alan Shepard on Feb. 5, 1971. The photograph was captured by an automatic camera mounted on a vehicle the mission used to haul equipment. —NASA ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868111/ss-170117-men-walked-moon-shepard-mn-08.jpg) The crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon. Mitchell died at 85, in Florida, in early 2016. After NASA, [Mitchell devoted his life](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/astronaut-edgar-mitchell-6th-man-moon-dies-florida-n512511) to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens. Shepard died in 1988. Before walking on the moon, Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight in 1961. —NASA via AP ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/1868116/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-mn-09.jpg) ## James Irwin and David Scott James Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute to David Scott, taking the picture, while standing beside the U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 mission on Aug. 1, 1971. The lunar module Falcon stands at center. Hadley Delta in the background rises approximately some 13,000 feet above the plain. —David Scott / NASA ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868121/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-irwin-scott-mn-10.jpg) James Irwin, left, and David Scott sample rocks in the Mojave Desert during a field trip where they used a lunar rover simulator to explore a lava flow at the base of the Sierra Nevadas in California on April 29, 1971. Irwin resigned from NASA and the Air Force in July 1972 to form a religious organization, High Flight Foundation, in Colorado Springs. He died in 1991. A personal watch that Scott wore while walking on the moon [sold for a whopping \$1.625 million](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/astronaut-watch-went-moon-back-sells-1-6-million-n450391) at auction in 2015. He is only one of three astronauts who have flown both earth orbital and lunar Apollo missions. He was born in 1932. —George Brich / AP ![Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868126/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-mn-11.jpg) ## Charles Duke and John Young Charles Duke collects lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 moonwalk on April 21, 1972. John Young captured the image as Duke stood at the rim of Plum crater. —John Young / NASA ![Image: Apollo 16](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/2285316/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-duke-young-mn-13_4ab9d6157471991d017cef5b8e90ef5d.jpg) The Apollo 16 crew relaxes during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 5, 1972. From left, Thomas Mattingly II, John Young, and Charles Duke. Mattingly remained in orbit while Young and Duke landed on the moon. At 36, Duke was the youngest man to walk on the moon. He retired from NASA in 1975 to enter private business. He was born in 1935. —NASA ![Image: John Young](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2018_02/2285326/180108-john-young-astronaut-mn-0958.jpg) John Young was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. Young was the commander for the space shuttle fleet's inaugural flight in 1981. He died Jan. 5, 2018, at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia. He was 87. Left: Young poses in a portrait for the Apollo 10 mission, where he was the command module pilot. Right: Young, Apollo 16 commander, collects samples at the North Ray Crater geological site on April 23, 1972. [Related: John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/john-young-legendary-astronaut-who-walked-moon-dies-87-n835226) —NASA ![Image: Image:](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868136/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-mn-14.jpg) ## Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan —Eugene Cernan / NASA ![Image: US-SPACE-OBIT-NASA-CERNAN](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868141/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-15.jpg) Eugene Cernan, left, and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt pose aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in December 1972. Schmitt, born in 1935,was the first person initially [trained as a scientist](http://www.space.com/20789-harrison-schmitt-astronaut-biography.html) to walk on the moon. Originally a geologist, he was selected by NASA in June 1965 along with a group of other scientist-astronauts – the first group not to be test pilots. —Ronald Evans / NASA ![Image: Eugene Cernan dead at 82](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2017_03/1868146/ss-170117-men-who-walked-moon-schmitt-cernan-mn-16.jpg) Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of the U.S. flag during the mission's first moonwalk on Dec. 12, 1972. Cernan, the last man on the moon, traced his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. He died on Jan. 16, 2017, in Texas. [Related:](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) [Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut on the Moon, Dies at 82](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-cernan-last-astronaut-moon-dies-82-n707541) —Harrison Schmitt / NASA via EPA 1/17
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