who was the last  US Astronaut to set  foot on the moon?
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Astronaut Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon\n\nSorry - I misunderstood your question. Here's my revised answer....\n\nThe last US Astronaut to step on the moon was Harrison H. Schmitt.  He was the 12th and the last.
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Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt
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Like the others who have responded, Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. He was so effected by the experience and also having completed such a long sought after goal that he had to have some emotional guidance from a counselor after his return. I'm not saying that he had a breakdown he just needed help to get his mind all the way around what had happened to him.
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Here's a selection of first person in space from various nations around the world.\n\nYuri Gagarin - Soviet Union\nAlan Shepard - United States\nVladimír Remek - Czechoslovakia\nBertalan Farkas - Hungary\nJean-Loup Chrétien- France\nRakesh Sharma - India\nSalman al-Saud - Saudia Arabia\nRodolfo Neri Vela - Mexico\nToyohiro Akiyama - Japan\nHelen Sharman - United Kingdom\nIlan Ramon - Israel\nYáng Lìwěi - China
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1.  Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969 \n2.  Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969 \n3.  Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969 \n4.  Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969 \n5.  Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971 \n6.  Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971 \n7.  David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971 \n8.  James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971 \n9.  John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 (see also Apollo 10) \n10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 \n11. Gene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 (see also Apollo 10) \n12. Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972"
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The Soviet Luna program had launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to fly past the moon on January 4, 1959. Its successor, Luna 2, was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, while Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon on October 7, 1959. Luna 9, launched by the USSR on February 3, 1966, performed the first "soft landing" on the moon; and Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon on April 3, 1966.\n\nThere have been no Russian cosmonauts on the surface.\n\nFollow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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none *in* the moon, but 12 have landed *on* the moon.\n\nsee link below for pix of the famous 12.
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Is it really true that man never really walked on the Moon...the picture of the American Flag (the one put there by the Apollo astronauts) is waving (or straight out) in the wind. How could that be possible if there is no atmosphere on the Moon? Was it some sort of optical illusion? If there were only three persons on that trip to the moon and one was Neil Armstrong, one was the other was standing beside him and third one was in the space shuttle then who took the photograph? \nif there were three astronauts on the Apollo missions, and two were on the Moon and the other was in the command module orbiting the Moon (a slight correction to the question at the top of this page, since the Space Shuttle wasn't developed at the time of the Apollo missions), then who took the picture shown on this page? The photos of the two astronauts doing their work on the Moon's surface were taken by an automatic 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera (DAC), which was mounted on the Lunar module which had brought Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon
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No they have not. The USSR had 3 programs to explore the moon, L-1, L-3 and Luna, and they were scaled back when it was realized that the Americans would beat them. They had planned a landing for 1968 when some disasterous setbacks made them realize it was not going to be possible. The Americans of course landed in 1969.
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1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?  Who took the video of Neil Armstrong? \n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
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JFK. YOu should hear his inpirring speeches about the US wanting to reach the moon, to get ahead of USSR in Space reseach and Rocket Science.
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No one else had flown around the moon. \n\nIts analogous to Lindy's flight across the atlantic. It may seem like they didn't accomplish much in hindsight, but consider the time -- no on from this planet had ever even approached another astronomic body. Much less, had anyone orbited it.\n\nThose of us who remember Apollo 8 (I think I was about 10) know the exhilaration of knowing the US had beat the pants off the Soviets. Star Trek was in its first season - good God, put it in perspective. We had 3 goddamn TV channels.
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There have been six.\n\n-- Apollo 11: July 16, 1969.\n(First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.)\n-- Apollo 12: November 14, 1969.\n-- Apollo 14: January 31, 1971.\n(The infamous Alan Shepard walks on the Moon.)\n-- Apollo 15: July 26, 1971.\n(First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.)\n-- Apollo 16: April 16, 1972.\n-- Apollo 17: December 7, 1972.\n(Last Apollo mission.)\n\nYes, all the landings were done within a 2-1/2 year period. Back then, there was a LOT of excitement about actually landing on the surface. But ever since then, the level of interest has been waning, and thus NASA could not justify the tremendous cost of a lunar expedition to Congress to appropriate the necessary funds. More focus has been going into unmanned exploration and surveying, with the bulk going into more practical Earth-orbit missions.\n\n(You'll notice that Apollo 13 is missing from the list above. If you've read the book "Lost Moon" or seen the movie "Apollo 13", then you know exactly why. ^.^)
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In July 1969 Armstrong, as commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, became the first person to set foot on the Moon.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20,1969.  Ten others followed during the next 3 years.
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Probably Kennedy, because he got the space race started and made it so that we can say that we landed on the moon.\n\nJust to give a little factual info, they have done studies and the open space for more figures on Mt. Rushmore are unusable as they are too unstable and would break off.