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Image description: Apollo landing sites on the Moon.
Twelve people walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
They left scientific experiments on the surface and came back to Earth with nearly 400 kg of lunar rocks and soil.
- Apollo 11. 21 July 1969. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins.
- Apollo 12. 19 November 1969. Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Richard Gordon.
- Apollo 13. 11 April 1970. James Lovell, John Swigert, Fred Haise.
- Apollo 14. 5 February 1971. Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Stuart Roosa.
- Apollo 15. 31 July 1971. David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden.
- Apollo 16. 21 April 1972. John Young, Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly.
- Apollo 17. 11 December 1972. Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans.
The European Space Agency is looking with international partners to bring back more rocks from the Moon using robots.
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