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Godspeed, Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan – You Taught Us Well - Townhall
Forty-five years ago, the world knew his name, his words, and his footprints. Twenty years ago, I found myself scanning an airport crowd looking for him. My job was to find this national hero, and ...
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Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82
Eugene Cernan salutes the American flag during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. (NASA) Cernan had previously served as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10 and was a pilot on the Gemini IX mission.
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Remembering Apollo 17's Gene Cernan — the Last Man to Walk on the Moon - Space.com
Liftoff of the Apollo 17 mission, aboard a powerful Saturn V rocket, took place early in the morning on Dec. 7, 1972. On board were commander Gene Cernan — a veteran of the Gemini program and ...
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Gene Cernan, last man on the moon, dead at 82 - Houston Chronicle
He was immortalized as "the last man to walk on the moon," but in 1972, shortly after completing the Apollo 17 mission, astronaut Gene Cernan predicted many others would follow. He didn't want the ...
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Pictures: Apollo 17, the last mission in the Apollo program
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon. Cernan wrote TDC — his daughter’s initials, in the lunar dust at the end of the mission in late 1972.
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Why No One Has Gone Back to the Moon After Apollo 17 | NASA’s Struggle
Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the ...
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Gene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, has died
The U.S. space program lost another towering figure today as astronaut Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the moon, died at the age of 82 on Monday.
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Apollo 17: Looking back at the last time the US landed on the moon
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.
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Gene Cernan - Purdue In Space
Gene Cernan NASA Bio. Learn More Cernan took those steps on December 14, 1972, as commander of the Apollo 17 mission, where he became the 11th human ever to walk on the moon. Cernan and fellow ...
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Fifty years later, remastered images reveal Apollo 17 in stunning clarity
Shortly after midnight, 50 years ago this morning, the Apollo 17 mission lifted off from Florida. With Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans on board, this was NASA's sixth and final ...
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Skywatch: Apollo 17, NASA’s last manned moon mission, launched 50 years ago - MassLive
Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan is holding the lower corner of the American flag during the mission's first EVA, December 12, 1972. (Photograph by Harrison J. "Jack" Schmitt, NASA) ...