Going to the Moon Trivia Quiz

Answer: Apollo 16

John Young was the ninth person to walk on the Moon. He was the Commander of the Apollo 16 Mission, which landed on the Moon in April 1972. He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA. He flew in six space missions, and had been Commander of four classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.

Answer: Apollo 17

Eugene Cernan was the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. He was the commander of Apollo 17, the last Apollo lunar landing, which landed on the Moon in December 1972. He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA. He was a pilot of Gemini 9A in 1966. He was also the lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in 1969.

Answer: Apollo 12

Pete Conrad was the third person to walk on the Moon. Apollo 12 landed on the Moon in November 1969. He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA. Apart from commanding Apollo 12, he was also an astronaut on the Gemini 5 Mission and was the commander of the Gemini 11 Mission. He also commanded Skylab 2. Pete Conrad received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978.

Answer: Apollo 16

Charles Duke was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, and was the tenth person to walk on the Moon. He served in the United States Air Force before joining NASA. He also served as the Capsule Commander for Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon.

Answer: Apollo 15

James Irwin was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 15. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon. He served in the United States Air Force before joining NASA. He was the first to die among astronauts who had gone to the Moon. He had also been a backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 12.

Answer: Apollo 14

Edgar Mitchell was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, which landed on the Moon in February 1971. He was the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Edgar Mitchell worked on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region. He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.

Answer: Apollo 12

Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which landed on the Moon in the region known as the Ocean of Storms in November 1969. He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA. He was also the spacecraft commander of the Skylab 3 Mission in 1973.

Answer: Apollo 15

David Scott was the commander of the Apollo 15 mission. He was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. He was also the first person to drive a Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon. He served in the United States Air Force before joining NASA. He also served as a pilot on the Gemini 8 Mission. He was also the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 9.

Answer: Apollo 17

Harrison Schmitt was a geologist who became the first scientist-astronaut to travel to the Moon. He was the twelfth person to walk on the Moon. He was acrew member on Apollo 17, which landed on the Moon in December 1972. He was also an United States Senator from New Mexico from 1977 to 1983, representing the Republican Party.

Answer: Apollo 14

Alan Shepard was the commander of the mission Apollo 14, which landed on the Moon in February 1971. He was the fifth person and earliest-born person to walk on the Moon. He was famous for hitting two golf balls on the surface of the Moon. He also holds the record of being the first American and second person to travel into space after Yuri Gagarin, when he piloted the spaceflight Mercury-Redstone 3.

He served in the United States Navy before joining NASA.