Moon exploration helps understand more about the moon. Many information people knew about the moon came from robotic orbiters and landers during the 1960s and 1970s. Twelve astronauts walked on the moon, left scientific experiments on the surface, and came back with rocks and soil. Their moon landings have marked mankind’s considerable progress.
Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles Duke is the youngest of only twelve people to have walked on the moon. Apollo 16 launched from John F. Kennedy Space Center on April 16, 1972, was the first scientific expedition to survey, inspect, and sample materials and surface features in the Descartes region.
Charles Duke collected samples near the rim of Plum Carter.
Following mission commander Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, was the second human being to walk on the moon and the first to have spacewalked.
This image of Aldrin walking on the surface of the Moon during Apollo 11 was captured by Commander Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot “Buzz” Aldrin made the first manned lunar landing in history. Neil Armstrong said that “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Eagle Pilot Buzz Aldrin posed for a portrait in July 1969.
Buzz Aldrin inspects equipment at Tranquility Base during Apollo 11’s mission on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the Moon in November 1969, descended from the lunar module Intrepid.
Apollo 17’s lunar module challenger took a trip to the moon in December 1972.
Eugene Cernan has been into space for three times including as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. This is the final lunar landing mission. Cernan became “the last man on the moon”. In the picture, Eugene Cernan was checking out the lunar roving vehicle at the Taurus – Littrow landing site.
LRVs or moon buggies were designed to help astronauts expand range of exploration on the low-gravity surface of the moon.
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