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 ...

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.

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 ...

Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, has died at the age of 82, according to NASA. He was a veteran of three spaceflights: as the pilot for Gemini 9A, the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo ...

Georges Méliès’ A TRIP TO THE MOON, APOLLO 13, THE RIGHT STUFF, HBO’s “From The Earth To The Moon.” Since the birth of cinema, audiences have been preoccupied with trips to our closest celestial body.

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 ...

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.

Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...