Yeah, I mean no-one even remembers the first guy on the moon do they?
Name ANY OTHER person from that team
Well, looking a mere few messages down, the obvious answer of Buzz Aldrin is already given. Michael Collins is the third guy, though (and, no, I didn't look that up or crib off anyone who might have mentioned his name...).
I regret to say that while I can generally remember most of the others from the various landing teams, up to and including Cernan and Schmitt (the latter being the only fully non-military person and gen-oo-ine scientist to have gone to the Moon, this pair together being the last to have walked there), I
did have to look up the name of Ron Evans (the last person to have
only orbited).
Dick Gordon is the one you ought to feel sorry for. Trained for Apollo 18 (with Schmitt, who was moved forward to 17 to boot out... Engle? Hmm, he needs to be felt sorry for too, I suppose), but never got to go anywhere.
Right, as I'm now officially joining this thread that I only just saw... Let's actually answer the OP and say that I'd
probably go, although I can't afford the price right now. My biggest concerns are my family and friends.
The friends would probably understand, and maybe wish they were going as well.
My parents if they
didn't become automatically extremely proud at my "one small step (among many others)" moment might take it hard that I've effectively emigrated
big-style. I don't know. It's not something (even in merely international terms) that I've talked to them about.
Although I've been further away, I currently live only 15 miles away from my (literally) natal home (because it was handy for my workplace at the time, and I haven't fancied moving again since then). So, for all I know they'd
want me to do that and expand outwards again., but they seem so happy to have me close by that going to a totally separate orbital distance doesn't seem to me to be something they'd condone without a lot of reservations that I'd have to consider.
And that, I think, is the only thing that would stop me. No, I'm not fearless or (I think) foolish, but the opportunity to accomplish what would be accomplished (yeah, yeah, I've read the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy, and
totally want it to be like that, but even if it's more modest it'd be something... even if it's like that near-end-of-tenure episode for David Tennant in Doctor Who!) is... shall we say 'attractive'?
(Oh and BTW, to join the themes of both parts of my post, my Dad was born in 1930. As were so many of the Apollo people. Look it up. About
half of the actual moonwalkers and several of the 'flying only' people as well. However, I suspect I'm older than most of the eventual "First on Mars"ers will be right now, so I don't expect there to be much actual continuity in this regard.)