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 ...

The tracks Cernan — who died Monday (Jan. 16) at age 82 — and Apollo 17 crewmate Harrison Schmitt made on the moon's surface in December 1972 are still visible today, as these images captured ...

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 ...

Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave the lunar surface, expressed hopes that humanity would ...

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.

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 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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bid now on Apollo 17, Gene Cernan Saluting the Flag at Taurus-Littrow, Dec. 1972, NASA Image #AS17-134-20380 by NASA. View a wide Variety of artworks by NASA, now available for sale on artnet Auctions ...