2007-03-21 01:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Depends what you mean by "visited" the Moon.
Twelve men have walked on its surface as eggman has detailed. Each of those 6 missions had a Command Module Pilot who orbited the Moon while his colleagues went for their excursion.
You can also count 3 men in Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, John Young & Gene Cernan) who made their voyage in May 1969 as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing, and Frank Borman, Jim Lovell & Bill Anders in Apollo 8 who orbited the Moon in December 1968.
I make it a total of 24 who've been in the vicinity, including the 12 who actually landed.
2007-03-21 07:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by Whoosher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firt of all there's the Moon Man who turns the light on and off.
Apollo 11 July 20 1069
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12 November 19, 1969
Pete Conrad
Alan Bean
(No rlation to the other Mr. Bean - God knows what would happen if he got up there, probably put coloured filters on the light and swing it from side to side.)
Apollo 14 February 5, 1971
Alan Shepard (played GOLF!!) Leader of the first moon sports program :))
Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 15 July 31, 1971
David Scott - also on August 1 & 2, 1971
James Irwin - also on August 1 & 2, 1971
Alfred Woden - August 5, 1971
Apollo 16 April 21 - 25, 1972
John Young - April 21, 22 & 23
Charles Duke - April 21, 22 & 23
Ken Mattingly - April 25
Apollo 17 December 11 - 15, 1972
Eugene Cernan
Harrison Schmitt - the last person to walk on the moon.
So total is 14 humans and the guy who lives there.
2007-03-21 10:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by Traveller 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Adding to Whoosher - a total of 9 missions made the trip to the moon, and 3 of those guys went twice:
Lovell, Young, Cernan.
Whoosher's right - 24 guys have made the trip, and 12 stepped foot on the moon.
And the last guy *set foot* on the moon was Schmidt (Apollo 17), but he got back on the LM first, leaving the *very last footprint* on the moon to be made by Cernan.
2007-03-21 15:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 men have actually walked on the moon.... each (successful) Apollo mission had a 3 man crew, but one guy stayed with the capsule orbiting the moon while two went for a walk. 6 Missions actually made it so that's 12 guys (not 14).
2007-03-21 10:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to the present day just over 3478 excluding the 102 permanent engineers,siencetists,and other crew living
on moon base A on the far side of the moon
2007-03-21 16:36:05 · answer #5 · answered by wizar10443_1989 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More people have mooned the visitors.
2007-03-21 08:47:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a summer house up there.. I go for two weeks every summer!
2007-03-21 08:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by Some Lady 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
many like Niel Armstrong and others
2007-03-21 08:46:02 · answer #8 · answered by Marc A. Bacus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋