How many people have stepped on the Moon?

50 years ago, going to the Moon was like spending a weekend in the suburbs. A little exaggerated, but we are not so wrong…

In 2025 there will be astronauts on our satellite again. How many people have been on the Moon? Everybody knows Neil Armstrongoh Buzz Aldrin. But how many more followed?

Total, 12 people have stepped on the Moon, with a difference of only 3 years. Surely there are more than you imagined. We will remember them all.

He July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the Moonpronouncing that mythical phrase: “One small step for man, one giant step for humanity.“. He walked through his arid soil for 2 hours and 31 minutes.

He did it in the company of Buzz Aldrinthe two members of the Apollo 11 mission, the first to land on the Moon.

12 astronauts on the surface of the Moon

Half a century later, what seemed easy before is now almost science fiction. We have spent years preparing return to the moon, and the delays are continuous. Although everything indicates that it will be in 2025.

After Armstrong and Aldrin, other NASA missions also landed on the Moon.

on the mission apollo 12who reached the Moon only three months later, in November 1969, it was the turn of Charles Conrad and Allan Bean. They spent much longer, almost 8 hours.

The apollo 14 made heroes of Allan Shepard and edgar mitchellin 1971. The apollo 15 brought to david scott and James Irwin. It was quite a milestone because for the first time, hethe astronauts drove an electric buggy on the Moon:

The last two landing missions on the Moon happened in 1971. The apollo 16with John Young and charles dukeand the apollo 17with Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.

Apollo 17 was the mission that spent the longest time exploring our satellite: 22 hours and 2 minutes. Charles Duke was the youngest, at 36, and Alan Shepard the oldest, at 47.

Since December 14, 1972, 51 years ago, we have not been back there. It is costing us a world, but we are closer. If all goes well, the feat will be repeated in 2025. This time with the first woman to walk on the moon. Less is left…