Who was the third person to walk on the moon?

The third person to walk on the Moon was Pete Conrad, who stepped onto the lunar surface during NASA’s Apollo 12 mission in November 1969.

Conrad was the mission commander, following Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who became the first and second people to walk on the Moon during Apollo 11. Apollo 12 was the second successful crewed lunar landing, and Conrad and lunar module pilot Alan Bean explored the Ocean of Storms while command module pilot Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

Apollo 12 demonstrated more precise landing capabilities than Apollo 11. The lunar module Intrepid touched down near the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, an uncrewed probe that had landed on the Moon in 1967. Conrad and Bean later collected parts of Surveyor 3 for scientific study.

A common mix-up is confusing the third person to walk on the Moon with the third person to travel to or orbit the Moon. Conrad was specifically the third human to set foot on the lunar surface; Gordon orbited the Moon but never walked there.