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Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were scheduled to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, but the lunar landing was aborted following a major malfunction en route to the Moon. [7] Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970.
Constellation Program – The Constellation program ran from 2004–2010 and would have utilised the Ares I and Ares V rockets alongside the Orion spacecraft and Altair lunar lander to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020 in preparation for crewed missions to Mars. It was cancelled in October 2010 by the Augustine Committee.
This is a list of all astronauts who have engaged in an EVA by partly or fully leaving a spacecraft, exclusive of extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. It is ordered chronologically by the date of first spacewalk.
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NASA has chosen the four astronauts for the Artemis II mission, which will be the first crew leaving Earth to orbit the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago.
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
Before astronaut school, there was college. astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon.
List of astronauts educated at the United States Naval Academy; Canadian Astronaut Corps; List of Chinese astronauts; List of Indian astronauts; List of Japanese astronauts. JAXA Astronaut Corps; List of cosmonauts. Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps; List of European astronauts. European Astronaut Corps. 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group; List ...