Sunday, September 2, 2012

Apollo Moon Walkers!!

The Apollo space program stretched from 1961 to 1972, culminating in a dozen men walking on the moon in its final years. The Moonwalkers were, in order:

- Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, 1969  ( First Man on the Moon)

- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Apollo 11, 1969  ( Second Man on the Moon)

- Charles "Pete" Conrad, Apollo 12, 1969

- Alan L. Bean, Apollo 12, 1969

- Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, 1971  ( First person to hit a Golf Ball on the Moon)

- Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14, 1971

- David Scott, Apollo 15, 1971

- James B. Irwin, Apollo 15, 1971

- John Young, Apollo 16, 1972

- Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16, 1972

- Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Apollo 17, 1972

- Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17, 1972  ( LAST Man to walk on the Moon )

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

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