Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor.

* 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of the Apollo 17 mission.

As he returned to the Lunar Module before Cernan, Schmitt is the next-to-last person to have walked on the Moon's surface.

* May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 ( Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young ) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.

** Apollo 17 ( Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt ), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched.

* December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) of Apollo 17.

Eugene Andrew Cernan ( born March 14, 1934 ) is a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut.

As Cernan prepared to climb the ladder for the final time, he spoke these words, the last currently spoken by a human standing on the Moon's surface: " Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface ; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I'd like to just ( say ) what I believe history will record.

Triton College ’ s campus covers and features electronic classrooms, labs, sports facilities, a library and bookstore, an art gallery and performing arts center, and the Cernan Earth and Space Center, which is a public planetarium.

The Cernan Earth and Space Center is a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in the Chicago suburb of River Grove.

It is named for astronaut Eugene Cernan, who flew aboard the Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions and, as commander of Apollo 17, was the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the moon.

The Cernan Center's dome theater is equipped with a Spitz 512 star projector, a C-360 35 mm film projector, a laser projection system, a three-screen video projection system, a 2, 300-watt audio system and numerous slide and special effects projectors.

Cernan also at one time was a contributor to ABC News and its Good Morning America morning show.

It would turn out that one of these ' cinder cones ' was just an impact crater, when visited by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on 17 and that what in fact he was seeing were young craters with dark ejecta blankets.

Cernan performed the second American EVA ( only the third ever ) but his space suit overheated resulting in a very high heart rate.

Evans was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 5 in 1966 and made his first and only flight into space as command module pilot aboard Apollo 17 in 1972, the last manned mission to the Moon to date, with Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.

Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights ( Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins and Richard Gordon ), performed several EVAs, but none was able to successfully work for long periods outside the spacecraft without tiring and overheating.

On May 13, 2010, Cernan and Neil Armstrong testified before Congress in opposition to President Barack Obama's cancellation of the Constellation program, initiated during the Bush administration as part of the Vision for Space Exploration to return humans to the Moon and later to Mars, but later deemed underfunded and unsustainable by the Augustine Commission in 2009.

A total of 15 Moon walks were performed by members of six Apollo crews, including Charles " Pete " Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene " Gene " Cernan and Dr. Harrison " Jack " Schmitt.

Cernan was the last Apollo astronaut to step off the surface of the Moon.

He was the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as Apollo 17 crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lunar Module first.

He landed on the Moon with commander Gene Cernan in December 1972.

Almost every place they went when accompanied by Eugene Cernan, if a band was present the song " Fly Me To The moon " was played-when they visited Disney Park they enjoyed the ride Trip To The Moon, than joked with the US Astronauts that they went to Disney Land and not the moon.

Almost every place they went when accompanied by Eugene Cernan, if a band was present the song " Fly Me To The moon " was played-when they visited Disney Park they enjoyed the ride Trip To The Moon, than joked with the US Astronauts that they went to Disney Land and not the moon.

On Apollo 17, Cernan became " the last man on the Moon " since he was the last to re-enter the lunar module Challenger during the mission's third and final extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ).

( Crewmate Harrison Schmitt was " the last man to arrive on the Moon ", as Cernan left the module first.

Apollo 10 holds the world / moon record for the highest speed attained by any manned vehicle at 39, 897 km / h ( 11. 08 km / s or 24, 791 mph ) during its return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Cernan at the beginning of EVA 3

Cernan turned down the opportunity to walk on the Moon eight months earlier as lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, preferring to risk missing a flight altogether for the opportunity to command his own mission.

In December 2011 Cernan appeared on the the BBC's astronomy programme The Sky at Night in the episode entitled " Last Man on the Moon ".

Had the injury been more severe, Cernan would have been medically dropped from the flight and Young would have commanded the last two Apollo Moon landings.

While Cernan and Schmitt landed and worked on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, Evans remained in lunar orbit on board the command module America, completing assigned work tasks which required visual geological observations, hand-held photography of specific targets, and the control of cameras and other highly sophisticated scientific equipment carried in the service module's SIM bay.

Stafford and his crewmates, John Young and Gene Cernan, were cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest speed ever attained by man — during Apollo 10's return from the Moon, the spacecraft reached 24, 791 statute miles per hour.

December 14, 1972: Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to walk on the Moon

Carrying astronauts Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, the mission was the last manned trip to the Moon.

Aldrin, Bean, Cernan and Scott walked on the Moon.

Kelly has made many notable appearances in miniseries and television movies including TNT's Passing Glory, HBO's The Tuskegee Airmen, Citizen Cohn and From the Earth to the Moon as Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon ; as President John F. Kennedy in NBC's Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot and The Nutcracker among others.

Such a self-contained spacewalk was first attempted by Eugene Cernan in 1966 on Gemini 9A, but Cernan could not reach the maneuvering unit without tiring.

However, as Schmitt re-entered the module first, Cernan became the last astronaut to walk on and depart the moon.

The museum has a flag that went to the moon with astronaut Eugene Cernan on Apollo 17.

Many well-known astronauts have also featured on the programme, such as Piers Sellers, Eugene Cernan, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.

In October 1969, Konstantin Feoktistov and Georgi Beregovoi traveled as guests of NASA throughout the US, visiting any city they chose and the Disney Park in California-they were joined on the trip by US Astronauts as hosts, to include Eugene Cernan, Neil Armstrong and others.

In October 1969, Konstantin Feoktistov and Georgi Beregovoi traveled as guests of NASA throughout the US, visiting any city they chose and the Disney Park in California-they were joined on the trip by US Astronauts as hosts, to include Eugene Cernan, Neil Armstrong and others.

Cernan in the LM after EVA 3 on Apollo 17

Cernan piloted the rover on its final sortie, recording a maximum speed of, giving him the ( unofficial ) lunar land speed record.

Cernan was featured in the Discovery Channel's documentary miniseries When We Left Earth, providing narrative on his involvement and missions as an astronaut.