Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ ˈ s ɜːr n ə n /; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the 11th human being to walk on the Moon.

May 1, 2023 · Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of his two fellow crew men under zero-gravity conditions aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in NASA’s Apollo program. That is astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, who is seemingly “right side up.”

Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.

Jan 12, 2025 · Eugene Cernan (born March 14, 1934, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 16, 2017, Houston, Texas) was an American astronaut who, as commander of Apollo 17 (December 7–17, 1972), was the last person to walk on the Moon.

Jul 11, 2024 · Captain Eugene A. Cernan logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space—of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the Moon. Captain Cernan was the second American to have walked in space, and one of only two …

Jan 16, 2017 · 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. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background.

Jan 3, 2025 · Apollo 17, U.S. crewed spaceflight to the Moon, launched on December 7, 1972, and successfully concluded on December 19, 1972. It was the final flight of the Apollo program, and Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison …

Jan 16, 2017 · Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon. He visited the moon's neighborhood twice, aboard Apollo 10 and Apollo 17, and also did a challenging spacewalk aboard Gemini 9.

Discover the incredible story of Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk on the Moon, and his historic Apollo 17 mission that marked the end of NASA's Apollo program in 1972.

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.