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He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second
crewed mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969. He
made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in
1973, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station. After
retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he
pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related
scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as
those of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living
crew member of Apollo 12. He was the fourth person to walk on the
Moon.
Alan Bean

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After earning a Sc.D. degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member
of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a
doctoral degree. His first space flight was in 1966 on Gemini 12 during
which he spent over five hours on extravehicular activity. Three years
later, Aldrin set foot on the Moon nineteen minutes after Armstrong
first touched the surface, while command module pilot Michael
Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Buzz Aldrin

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In 1965 Young flew on the first crewed Gemini mission, and then
commanded the 1966 Gemini 10 mission. In 1969 during Apollo 10,
he became the first person to fly solo around the Moon. He then
walked on the Moon and drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the
Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to
have flown to the Moon twice.

Young also commanded 2 flights of Space Shuttle Columbia: STS-1 in
John Young 1981, the Space Shuttle program's first launch, and STS-9 in 1983.

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Evans was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut
Group 5 in 1966 and made his only flight into space as Command
Module Pilot aboard Apollo 17 in December 1972, the last crewed
mission to the Moon, with Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar
Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. During the flight, Evans orbited the
Moon a record 75 times as his two crewmates descended to the
surface. He is the last person to orbit the Moon alone and, at 148

Ronald Evans hours, holds the record for the most time spent in lunar orbit.

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