Mitchell is remembered for his quick thinking that saved Apollo 14 from disaster. The former naval aviator was the sixth human being to walk on the moon. He and Shepard set mission records at the time for the longest distance traveled on the moon, largest payload returned from the lunar surface, and longest stay 33 hours.
They were also the first to transmit color TV from the moon. In his later years, Mitchell voiced his unusual opinions about extraterrestrial life and UFOs. He died on Feb. Of the 12 men who walked on the moon, David R. Scott is one of the four still living. He flew in space three times, piloted the command module on Apollo 9 for the first docking of the command module and lunar module, and made history during the Apollo 15 mission by driving the lunar rover on the moon for the first time.
He also survived a terrifying spin aboard Gemini 8 with Neil Armstrong in March James B. Irwin retired a year after exploring the moon on the Apollo 15 mission in July and founded an evangelical religious organization called the High Flight Foundation. The Air Force colonel and David Scott became the eighth and seventh American astronauts to walk on the moon, respectively.
Irwin died from a heart attack Aug. He had our backs. Young landed on the moon with the Apollo 16 mission and is the only person to have gone into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle programs. He retired in after 42 years with NASA and had acquired more than 80 major honors and awards, including an induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Yet we also know how lucky Mike felt to have lived the life he did.
We will honor his wish for us to celebrate, not mourn, that life. Neil Armstrong died on August 25th at the age of His family announced his death in a statement which read :. Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. Apollo 11 was Collins' second spaceflight, after the Gemini 10 mission in On that flight, Collins served as pilot during a successful rendezvous and docking with a separately launched unmanned spacecraft called Agena.
Air Force, logging approximately 5, hours flying time. In , Collins left the Smithsonian, joining the LTV Aerospace company, and then started his own consulting firm in He wrote written several books and painted watercolors.
On April 28, , Collins' family announced that after a long battle with cancer, he had died. Charles "Pete" Conrad : Commander, Apollo Conrad headed up the second lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, in November Conrad became the third person to walk on the moon, and spent more than a day exploring the lunar surface.
Apollo 12 was Conrad's third spaceflight, following his turns on the Gemini 5 and Gemini 11 missions. A test pilot for the U. He died in , following a motorcycle accident in Ojai, Calif. Alan Bean : Lunar module pilot, Apollo Bean's first spaceflight was Apollo 12, during which he spent more than a day on the surface of the moon with Pete Conrad.
A captain the U. He retired from NASA in to concentrate on painting, saying he was inspired to communicate his space experiences through art. In , to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, many of Bean's works were displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.
Bean died May 26, , after an illness. He was Richard F. On Apollo 12, Gordon stayed inside the command module Yankee Clipper, photographing potential future lunar landing sites while Conrad and Bean walked on the moon.
Gordon, a captain in the U. Navy, was selected as an astronaut in , and served as pilot for the Gemini 11 mission in September Gordon died November 6, Alan Shepard : Commander, Apollo Apollo 14 marked his second spaceflight, following a stint as chief of NASA's astronaut office, a job he resumed after his moon mission.
During his walk on the moon, he famously hit two golf balls and watched them soar in the low lunar gravity. This website uses cookies to improve your experience.
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