View [Apollo 17] EUGENE CERNAN KNEELING ON THE MOON AT THE TAURUS-LITTROW SCIENTIFIC SITE (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo Science report) (1972) By ...

[Apollo 17] EUGENE CERNAN AND THE ROVER AT THE TAURUS-LITTROW SCIENTIFIC SITE, FRAMED BY THE TOWERING NORTH MASSIF (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo Science ...

Forty years ago today, Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, climbed back up the ladder of his lunar module and took off from the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley — thus ending America’s lunar program.

We’ll ask that question a different way: Have you ever heard of Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt? Those are the astronauts that took the moonwalk 52 years ago to little fanfare on Apollo 17. It was ...

On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, ...

This iconic image is that of the last and most famous photographic ritual of the Apollo missions: the “Salute to the American Flag”. It punctuates the last mission of the Apollo program and the period ...

Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...

HOUSTON — Astronaut Gene Cernan traced his only child's initials in the dust of the lunar surface. Then he climbed into the lunar module for the ride home, becoming the last person to walk on the moon ...

HOUSTON -- Funeral services are today for former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to have walked on the moon. Cernan's family says the funeral will be at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...