Twelve American men have walked on the moon during six successful Apollo missions launched by NASA. Apollo 11 was the first to land, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin being the first humans to walk on the moon. Other notable facts include Alan Shepard hitting golf balls on the moon during Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 being the last mission to land on the moon. The total cost of the Apollo project is estimated to be between $130 billion and $190 billion.
Twelve astronauts have walked on the moon. Of the 17 Apollo missions NASA launched, six were successful lunar landings. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 became the first of the missions to make a successful landing, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to walk on the moon.
More lunar mission facts:
Of the 12 people who walked on the moon, they were all American men.
Eleven of the 12 people who have walked on the moon were born in the 1930s; one was born in the 1920s.
When Apollo 14 landed on February 5, 1971, Alan Shepard became famous for hitting golf balls on the moon. This was also the first mission to be broadcast in color for television.
Apollo 11 was not only the first mission in which astronauts walked on the moon, but also the first time that samples from another planetary body were collected and analyzed. The samples have been dated to 3.7 billion years old.
The first manned Apollo mission failed before taking off. A fire during preflight tests killed US astronauts Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee.
Apollo 17 was the last of the missions to land on the moon, and Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last humans to walk on the moon. Estimates of the total cost of the Apollo project range, generally ranging, in 2010 dollars, from about US$130 billion to about US$190 billion.
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