List Of All Astronauts Who Walked On The Moon

5 Alan Shepard (February 1971)

• Full name: Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.
• Born: November 18, 1923
• Died: July 21, 1998
• Age at moon landing: 47 (oldest man on the moon)
• Spaceflight/Moon landing mission: Apollo 14
• Launch date: January 31, 1971
• Launch site: Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
• Spacecraft that put him on the moon: Apollo CSM-110/Apollo LM-8
• Moonwalk date: February 5 (EVA 1) and February 6 (EVA 2), 1971
• Return landing date: February 9, 1971
• Return landing site: South Pacific Ocean
• What you may not know about Alan Shepard: Apart from being the 5th man on the moon, Shepard was also the first American to in space in 1961. The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, just three weeks before Shepard.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all -Alan Shepard

6 Edgar Mitchell (February 1971)

• Full name: Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D.
• Born: September 17, 1930
• Age at moon landing: 40
• Spaceflight/Moon landing mission: Apollo 14
• Launch date: January 31, 1971
• Launch site: Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
• Spacecraft that put him on the moon: Apollo CSM-110/Apollo LM-8
• Moonwalk date: February 5 (EVA 1) and February 6 (EVA 2), 1971
• Return landing date: February 9, 1971
• Return landing site: South Pacific Ocean
• What you may not know about Edgar Mitchell: Mitchell is the only astronaut to go on record about his believe that UFO cover-ups must stop. He firmly believes that UFO’s are real and that alien species are out there, watching us.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch. -Edgar Mitchell