Who has been to the moon?An incomplete register of characters from history and fiction that have walked on the moon.

Exceptions and special mentionsThere is no evidence that Frank Sinatra’s request

was ever granted. James Bond went to space, and a set of the moon, but not to the moon itself.

Pandora in Avatar is a moon, but not ours. Similarly, the Clangers’ ‘moon-like planet’ isn’t ours and

neither are any Discworld moons. We don’t believe that Neil from the Young Ones really

went to the moon, and we suspect the Bears Who Stayed Indoors did indeed stay indoors, and not go

to the moon. In Raymond Scott’s Rocket to the Moon, the travellers circle, but don’t visit, the moon.

The Cow only jumped over it, and Michael Collins etc orbited, but didn’t touch down. Comic books have been omitted because fitting the entire Marvel

universe would have caused chaos, but special mentions go to Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Cerebus the Aardvark, Bananaman, Calvin and Hobbes and Moony.

Nellie Armstrong was discounted as she was only the first person on the moon in a parallel universe. Consider any implied moon visits in The Sentinel covered by the ‘et al.’ of the 2001: A Space Odyssey

entry. Button moon is a button, not the moon. The Truman Show’s production team operated from a moon, but that was just part of an elaborate set designed to fool Truman – it didn’t fool us.

The moon in The Mighty Boosh had a face, but we don’t think anyone visited it. We suspect Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s visit was a fly-by, rather than a landing, though please get in touch if you can prove

otherwise. Gru stole the moon, but only Vector actually ended up on it. Selene tended to drive the moon, but using it as a vehicle isn’t really the same as visiting.

Major Tom floated in his tin can far above the moon, but doesn’t touch down that we know of, and Pink Floyd didn’t actually go to the dark side of the moon.

Unconfirmed sightingsWe have heard rumour of lots of visits that we couldn’t confirm beyond doubt. If you can provide solid evidence of any of the following individuals having visited the moon, get in touch at @Ri_Science.John Cabal, Torchy the Battery Boy, Sailor Moon, Aquila, Pinky & the Brain, Timmy Turner, Maggot Moon, Tarzan, Curious George, The Fantastic Four, Donald Duck, Super Ted, Char-lie Bear, Blue Cow, Duck Dodgers, The Young Wizards, the Grey Knights, Mickey Mouse, Mr Benn, Alice Kramden, Master of the Moon, Reverend Smallwood, Harold and His Purple Crayon, Avvaiya Patti, Buck Rogers.

Key Book Legend/folk Song/Poem/Radio Film TV History Video gameInternal arrows indicate when the visit is set (eg: 2001: A Space Odyssea is set in 2001, so has an arrow pointing to roughly 2001 on the time-line). Note that the timeline is not to scale.

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Who have we missed?Who else has walked on the moon? Show conclusive evidence of any visits we’ve missed or got wrong, and if there are enough we’ll include them in an updated version of this graphic in 2016. Let us know on twitter at @Ri_Science.

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