Apollo astronaut Alan Bean was the fourth man to walk on the moon, during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. Jeremy slowly opened the spaceship door, he looked around and with his eyes wide said into his mic “I’m on the moon! 0. [image-78] How Were Moon Spacesuits Different? He and flight commander Neil Armstrong made the Apollo 11 moonwalk in 1969. 122. NASA’s ambitious plan to put the first woman on the surface of the Moon by 2024 is now named Artemis, after the Greek goddess of the Moon and twin sister of the god Apollo. Getty Images. The first female astronaut will step foot on the moon by 2024 — where astronauts will test spacecraft for an eventual future mission to Mars, NASA has announced. The first astronaut candidates for Project Mercury had to be experienced jet and test pilots, with at least fifteen hundred hours of flight time. It was a grand watch, a combination timepiece-stopwatch built by Omega to be water-resistant, shock-proof, and able to withstand 12 Gs of acceleration. Purdue University is called the “cradle of astronauts” for good reason. The first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong on 21 July 1969. A woman has never landed on the moon, although many have flown in space. Most impressive of all: It had flown on Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the moon. NASA is planning on sending the first American woman and the next American man to the moon by 2024 thanks to an additional increase to their budget by President Trump. (CNN)After more than two years of training, the first class of NASA astronaut candidates under the agency's program to land the first woman and next man on the moon have graduated. Mixed with some Canon Piano music and the famous words by Neil Armstrong himself. List of Apollo Astronauts Who Walked On The Moon 六 Of the 12 people who walked on the moon, only four are still alive to celebrate the 50th Anniversary year; Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke and Jack Schmitt. In all, 24 American astronauts made the trip from the Earth to the Moon between 1968 and 1972. Astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he stepped out of the Apollo 11 and onto the moon, July 20, 1969. The astronaut breathed oxygen from the spacecraft through the hose. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. First Astronaut On the Moon. Elon Musk’s First Astronaut Launch Is One Giant Leap For Space Capitalism. Most impressive of all: It had flown on Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the moon. They had to protect astronauts while they were walking on the moon. Bean was … Spacesuits for the Apollo program had to do things the Mercury and Gemini suits could not.