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How Many People Have Been to the Moon?
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Neil Armstrong Takes Humankind's First Steps on the Lunar Surface During NASA's Apollo 11 Mission
Illustration of a spacecraft above the lunar surface with the text "we're sending astronauts into DEEP SPACE" and a blue arrow pointing toward the spacecraft.
Eugene Cernan The Artemis II crew-Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman-smile and give thumbs up for a group photo inside the Orion spacecraft with U.S. and Canadian flags visible. Infographic timeline of NASA's Apollo missions, showing key dates, mission patches, astronaut names, mission achievements, time and distance statistics, and a map of Apollo landing sites on the Moon. Includes milestones such as Apollo 11's first Moon landing, Apollo 13's survival after an explosion, and total moonwalkers and human visitors.
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The answer is 28, though only 12 astronauts have walked on the Moon.
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Neil Armstrong Takes Humankind's First Steps on the Lunar Surface During NASA's Apollo 11 Mission
Perhaps the most famous of all space films, these clips document the arrival of the...
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Why Artemis II Is Taking Us Back to the Moon
NASA's Artemis program is looking to the Moon—and beyond.
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Apollo 11
U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin (Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.) stepping off the ladder of Apollo...
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Edward White
American astronaut Edward White, pilot of the Gemini 4 mission, performing the United...
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Apollo 8: Earthrise photograph
Earth over the horizon of the Moon, taken during the Apollo 8 mission by American...
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Eugene Cernan
American astronaut Eugene Cernan walking toward the lunar rover on the surface of...
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Artemis II crew members
Members of the Artemis II crew, (from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission...
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Explore the timeline of the Apollo missions that led the United States to land the first humans on the Moon.
Timeline and infographic of the Apollo space missions.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski