The Apollo Mission Traverses

Image of the moon with the landing locations of all 6 Apollo missions shown with orange squares and numbers of the missions.

This image shows the landing locations of the 6 Apollo missions.

Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

In 6 missions during the Apollo program, NASA was able to land humans on the Moon who could traverse, or travel, on the lunar surface.

With the experience and knowledge gained from the earlier missions, astronauts were able to cover more and more ground as the program continued.


Learn more about and compare each Apollo mission traverse below.

Image of an astronaut driving a four wheeled vehicle on the surface of the moon. The vehicle has a dish-shaped instrument at the front.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle debuts!

Thumbnail image credits: NASA