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Edward G. Givens Jr. – from Group 5; was on the support crew of Apollo 7, but died in a car crash near Houston, Texas on June 6, 1967. Joe H. Engle – from Group 5; was originally named as Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot, but lost his slot to Schmitt. After Apollo, he flew in the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests, then commanded STS-2 ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Category for NASA astronauts who took part in the successful or non-successful Apollo missions (1967-1972) See also: Category:People who have walked on the Moon (currently exclusive to the Apollo program)
Apollo 16 landed in the Descartes Highlands on April 20, 1972. The crew was commanded by John Young, with Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke. Young and Duke spent just under three days on the surface, with a total of over 20 hours EVA. [121] Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo program, landing in the Taurus–Littrow region in
At the North Ray rim, they left to the LM and walked to the largest boulder (dubbed House Rock) sampled by the Apollo missions. [37] Young and Duke set the lunar land speed record of 10.5 miles per hour (16.9 km/h) during the third EVA. [35] 26. Apollo 16 trans-earth EVA: Thomas Mattingly Charles Duke (stand up only) John Young (did not exit ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Joseph Peter Kerwin (born February 19, 1932) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. [1] He served as the science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25, 1973, to June 22, 1973.
John Royer Garman [1] (September 11, 1944 – September 20, 2016) was a computer engineer, former senior NASA executive and noted key figure of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. As a young specialist on duty during the final descent stage on 20 July 1969 he dealt with a series of computer alarms which could have caused the mission to be aborted.