Curated category
Spacewalkers
- Pete ConradPete Conrad stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder on the 19th of November 1969, paused on the landing pad, and jumped down onto the Moon.
- Ed White (astronaut)Ed White took his last step back inside a spacecraft on the 27th of January 1967, and by that evening, he was gone. But the moment that defined his life came…
- Gene CernanGene Cernan stepped off the lunar surface on the 14th of December 1972, climbed the ladder of the Apollo 17 lunar module, and has not been followed by any…
- Buzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on the 21st of July 1969 (UTC), nineteen minutes after Neil Armstrong first touched the surface.
- Alfred WordenAlfred Worden was, for three days in 1971, the most isolated human being who had ever lived. While his crewmates David Scott and James Irwin walked on the…
- Ken MattinglyKen Mattingly came closest to the Moon without ever landing on it. Born on the 17th of March, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II spent a…
- Michael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins orbited the Moon thirty times in July 1969 and never set foot on it. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the Sea of…
- Alexei LeonovAlexei Arkhipovich Leonov was born on the 30th of May 1934 in Listvyanka, a small settlement in West Siberian Krai, and he died in Moscow on the 11th of…
- Alan BeanAlan LaVern Bean was born on the 15th of March, 1932, in Wheeler, Texas, a small town in the northeastern corner of the Texas Panhandle.
- Svetlana SavitskayaSvetlana Savitskaya was sixteen years old when she began jumping out of aircraft without telling her parents. She had hidden a parachute knife in her school…
- Harrison SchmittHarrison Hagan Schmitt stepped off the Moon's surface in December 1972 and boarded the Lunar Module just before his commander, Gene Cernan.
- James IrwinJames Benson Irwin told his mother, when he was about 12 years old, that he wanted to go to the Moon and might be the first person to do so.
- Richard F. Gordon Jr.Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was born in Seattle, Washington, on the 5th of October 1929, and he died 88 years later having orbited the Moon 45 times.
- Charles DukeCharles Duke was 36 years and 201 days old when he stepped onto the Moon on the 21st of April 1972, making him the youngest person ever to walk on another…
- Ronald Evans (astronaut)Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. is the last human being to orbit the Moon alone. On the 14th of December 1972, while his crewmates Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt…
- Rusty SchweickartRusty Schweickart spent five minutes tethered outside his spacecraft, suspended above the Earth, and felt something shift inside him.
- Christina KochChristina Koch stepped onto the far side of the Moon's shadow in April 2026 and looked back at Earth setting behind a lunar horizon.
- Jessica MeirJessica Ulrika Meir grew up watching Space Shuttle missions on television in rural Maine, where, as she put it, the stars shone so brightly they felt almost…
- Chris HadfieldChris Hadfield was nine years old when he made up his mind. Sitting in front of a television on a corn farm in southern Ontario in 1969, he watched Apollo 11…