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Buzz Aldrin was the second astronaut to walk on the moon, following Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Apollo 1 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 2 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 3 astronaut names: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward White, Roger B. Chaffee Apollo 4 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 5 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 6 astronaut names: Unmanned Apollo 7 astronaut names: Walter Schirra, Don Eisele, Walter Cunigham Apollo 8 astronaut names: Frank Borman, Jm Lovell, William Anders Apollo 9 astronaut names: James McDivitt, David Scott, Russel Schweickart Apollo 10 astronaut names: Tomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan Apollo 11 astronaut names: Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins, "Buzz" Aldrin Apollo 12 astronaut names: Charles Conrad, Richard Gordan, Alan Bean Apollo 13 astronaut names: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise Apollo 14 astronaut names: Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell Apollo 15 astronaut names: David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin Apollo 16 astronaut names: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke Apollo 17 astronaut names: Eugen Cernan, Robert Evans, Harrison Schmitt
The Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin "Buzz Aldrin. Jr.
There was no Apollo 2. Apollo 1 was to have been the first manned Apollo flight, but it caught fire during a routine ground test a month before the scheduled launch. All 3 astronauts inside died. I think you're asking which astronaut orbited the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin walked below. That man would be Michael Collins, who accompanied Armstrong and Aldrin on Apollo 11.
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin of Apollo 11 was the second man to put his foot on the moon ,on 20/7/1969.
Michael Collins was the astronaut who piloted the command module Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. He orbited the Moon alone, waiting for his crewmates to return to the command module for their journey back to Earth.
Astronaut Ted Freeman died in an aircraft accident during training for the Apollo program, but no Apollo mission ever sank. The Apollo program saw successful manned missions to the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
It was astronaut Eugene cernan, in Apollo 17
Apollo 2 was an unmanned mission launched in 1966. It was destroyed about six hours into the flight. You are probably confusing it with Apollo 11 (eleven) the first mission to land on the moon. The astronaut in the command vehicle that stayed in orbit around the moon was Michael Collins.
The Apollo capsule took three astronaut's.
Gus Grissom is the only astronaut to have flown on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space missions. He was a highly experienced astronaut who tragically lost his life in the Apollo 1 mission fire in 1967.