As of the latest publicly available updates, six Apollo astronauts are still alive.

Quick Scoop: Who’s Still With Us?

From the 24 astronauts who flew on Apollo missions to the Moon, only a small handful remain today. These include both Moon-walkers and astronauts who flew to the Moon but did not land.

The six Apollo astronauts still alive are:

  1. David Scott – Apollo 9 (Earth orbit) and Apollo 15 (Moon landing, moonwalker).
  1. Rusty Schweickart – Apollo 9 (lunar module test in Earth orbit, did not go to the Moon).
  1. Buzz Aldrin – Apollo 11 (second human to walk on the Moon).
  1. Fred Haise – Apollo 13 (planned Moon landing that became a rescue mission, did not land).
  1. Charles Duke – Apollo 16 (moonwalker).
  1. Harrison “Jack” Schmitt – Apollo 17 (geologist and moonwalker, last Apollo crew to walk on the Moon).

All of Jim Lovell’s Apollo crewmates who were still alive into the 2020s have since passed, and Lovell himself died in August 2025.

In other words: only six of the original Apollo Moon-era astronauts are still alive, and four of those actually walked on the lunar surface.

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How many moonwalkers are still alive?

Of the 12 astronauts who walked on the Moon during Apollo, only four are still alive:

  • Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11).
  • David Scott (Apollo 15).
  • Charles Duke (Apollo 16).
  • Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17).

How many total Apollo flyers are still alive?

If you count all astronauts who flew on an Apollo mission to the Moon (whether or not they landed) , current reporting converges on six still alive , the same six named above.

Earlier discussions and forum threads sometimes listed larger numbers (like 8 or more) because they were written before deaths in the early–mid 2020s, such as the passing of Jim Lovell and Tom Stafford.

Forum & “Trending Topic” Context

On space-history forums and Reddit, the question “how many Apollo astronauts are still alive?” comes up whenever a former astronaut passes away or a big anniversary of Apollo 11 or Apollo 13 hits. People often:

  • Compare the dwindling Apollo generation with NASA’s newer Artemis astronauts.
  • Reflect on how “living memory” of the first Moon landings is slowly disappearing.
  • Trade personal stories of seeing the missions live on TV or meeting an astronaut at an event.

You’ll also see news pieces and podcasts in 2024–2025 emphasizing that we are down to “the last of the Moon men,” often highlighting Aldrin, Scott, Duke, and Schmitt as the last surviving moonwalkers, and adding Haise and Schweickart as the other remaining Apollo veterans.

TL;DR:

  • Still-alive Apollo astronauts (all missions): 6.
  • Still-alive Moon-walkers: 4.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.