List of people who have flown to the Moon

Twenty-eight people have traveled to or around the Moon, including 12 who landed and walked on the surface, 10 who orbited without landing, and seven who flew by the Moon without orbiting or landing. These 28 are the only astronauts to have traveled beyond low Earth orbit.

Between December 1968 and December 1972, the NASA Apollo program sent 24 astronauts on nine crewed lunar missions. Six of the missions landed two astronauts each on the lunar surface, while Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 orbited without landing. Apollo 13's planned lunar landing was aborted due to an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon; instead, the crew looped around the Moon 158 miles above its surface without entering orbit. Three astronauts reached the Moon twice: Jim Lovell orbited the Moon on Apollo 8 and later flew on Apollo 13; John Young and Eugene Cernan both orbited the Moon on Apollo 10 and landed on separate missions.

In April 2026, NASA's Artemis II carried four astronauts on a circumlunar flyby, including the first woman, first Black man, and first Canadian. They passed by the Moon 6,545 km (4,067 miles) from the surface without entering orbit.

The twelve people who landed on the Moon were all American men. The first were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969, and the most recent were Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt in December 1972. All crewed lunar landings have been part of the Apollo program.