The following list includes all Apollo prime crew astronauts, sorted alphabetically by surname.
It provides their full name, year of birth, all space missions flown, their role in Apollo missions and their age at the time of those missions. If deceased, their entry includes date of death and age at death.
Apollo 1 crew information is included as a tribute to their loss during preflight training. “STS” references a Space Shuttle flight. CDR – commander; CMP – Command Module Pilot; LMP – Lunar Module Pilot.
This information is valid as of 7 April 2026.
Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr (1930- ) – Gemini 12, Apollo 11 (LMP,
39)
William Alison Anders (1933-2024, 90) – Apollo 8 (LMP, 35)
Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012, 82) – Gemini 8, Apollo 11 (CDR, 38)
Alan LaVern Bean (1932-2018, 86) – Apollo 12 (LMP, 37), Skylab 3 (CDR,
41)
Frank Frederick Borman II (1928-2023, 95) – Gemini 7, Apollo 8 (CDR, 40)
Vance DeVoe Brand (1931- ) – Apollo-Soyuz (CMP, 44), STS-5, STS-41-B,
STS-35
Gerald Paul Carr (1932-2020, 88) – Skylab 4 (CDR, 41)
Eugene Andrew “Gene” Cernan (1934-2017, 82) – Gemini 9-A, Apollo 10
(LMP, 35), Apollo 17 (CDR, 38)
Roger Bruce Chaffee (1935-1967, 31) – Apollo 1 (Pilot, 31)
Michael Collins (1930-2021, 90) – Gemini 10, Apollo 11 (CMP, 38)
Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr (1930-1999, 69) – Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo
12 (CDR, 39), Skylab 2 (CDR, 43)
Ronnie Walter “Walt” Cunningham (1932-2023, 90) – Apollo 7 (LMP, 36)
Charles Moss Duke Jr (1935- ) – Apollo 16 (LMP, 36)
Donn Fulton Eisele (1930-1987, 57) – Apollo 7 (CMP, 38)
Ronald Ellwin Evans (1933-1990, 56) – Apollo 17 (CMP, 39)
Owen Kay Garriott (1930-2019, 89) – Skylab 3 (Science Pilot, 43),
STS-9
Edward George Gibson (1936- ) – Skylab 4 (Science Pilot, 38)
Richard Francis “Dick” Gordon Jr (1929-2017, 88) – Gemini 11, Apollo 12
(CMP, 40)
Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom (1926-1967, 40) – Mercury 4, Gemini 3, Apollo
1 (CDR, 40)
Fred Wallace Haise Jr (1933- ) – Apollo 13 (LMP, 36)
James Benson Irwin (1930-1991, 61) – Apollo 15 (LMP, 41)
Joseph Peter Kerwin (1932- ) – Skylab 2 (Science Pilot, 41)
James Arthur Lovell Jr (1928-1925, 97) – Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 (CMP,
40), Apollo 13 (CDR, 42)
Jack Robert Lousma (1936- ) – Skylab 3 (Pilot, 37), STS-3
Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly II (1936-2023, 87) – Apollo 16 (CMP, 36),
STS-4, STS-51-C
James Alton McDivitt (1929-2022, 93) – Gemini 4, Apollo 9 (CDR, 39)
Edgar Dean Mitchell (1930-2016, 85) – Apollo 14 (LMP, 40)
William Reid Pogue (1930-2014, 84) – Skylab 4 (Pilot, 43)
Stuart Allen Roosa (1933-1994, 61) – Apollo 14 (CMP, 37)
Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra (1923-2007, 84) – Mercury 8, Gemini 6A,
Apollo 7 (CDR, 45)
Harrison Hagan Schmitt (1935- ) – Apollo 17 (LMP, 37)
Russell Louis “Rusty” Schweickart (1935- ) – Apollo 9 (LMP, 33)
David Randolph Scott (1932- ) – Gemini 8, Apollo 9 (CMP, 36), Apollo 15
(CDR, 39)
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr (1923-1998, 74) – Mercury 3, Apollo 14 (CDR,
47)
Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (1924-1993, 69) – Apollo-Soyuz (Docking
Module Pilot, 51)
Thomas Patten Stafford (1930-2024, 93) – Gemini 6-A, Gemini 9-A, Apollo 10
(CDR, 39), Apollo-Soyuz (CDR, 45)
John Leonard “Jack” Swigert Jr (1931-1982, 51) – Apollo 13 (CMP, 38)
Paul Joseph Weitz (1932-2017, 85) – Skylab 2 (Pilot, 41), STS-6
Edward Higgins White II (1930-1967, 36) – Gemini 4, Apollo 1 (Senior
Pilot, 36)
Alfred Merrill Worden (1932-2020, 88) – Apollo 15 (CMP, 39)
John Watts Young (1930-2018, 87) – Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10 (38),
Apollo 16 (CDR, 41), STS-1, STS-9
Apollo astronauts who flew around the Moon. The Apollo program took 24 people, all American white males, beyond low Earth orbit and around the Moon at least once, on Apollo 8, 10 and 13 (circumlunar flights) and Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 (lunar landing flights).
Five of them are still alive: Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke, Fred Haise, Harrison Schmitt, and David Scott.
Nineteen have died: Bill Anders, Neil Armstrong, Alan Bean, Frank Borman, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Ron Evans, Richard Gordon, James Irwin, James Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard, Thomas Stafford, John Swigert, Alfred Worden, and John Young.
On 7 April 2026, nearly 54 years after the last human flight to the Moon, four more people joined these twenty-four: the crew of Artemis II, consisting of Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), Christina Koch (mission specialist) and Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist). Glover was the first person of color; Koch was the first woman; and Hansen was the first non-US person (he’s Canadian).
Apollo moonwalkers. Only 12 of the Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon walked on it. Four of them are still alive: Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), David Scott (Apollo 15), Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Eight are no longer with us: Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Charles Conrad (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14), James Irwin (Apollo 15), John Young (Apollo 16), and Gene Cernan (Apollo 17).
Multiple trips to the Moon. Three astronauts flew to the Moon twice: James Lovell (Apollo 8 and 13), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16) and Eugene Cernan (Apollo 10 and 17). Lovell was the only astronaut to fly twice to the Moon without ever setting foot there: Young and Cernan landed on the Moon during their second trips.