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.

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

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.

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.

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.

) Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.

Cernan was selected among the third group of NASA astronauts in October 1963 by NASA to participate in projects Gemini and Apollo.

Cernan was originally selected as back-up pilot for Gemini 9 with Thomas Stafford, but when the prime crew was killed in a plane crash, they then became the prime crew.

Cernan is one of only three humans to voyage to the Moon on two different occasions ( the others being Jim Lovell and John Young ), one of only twelve people to walk on the Moon and the only person to have descended toward the Moon in the lunar lander twice ( the first was Apollo 10's non-landing mission ).

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

In 1966, Young was assigned to an Apollo crew with Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan.

Young's final assignment in Apollo was as the backup commander for Cernan on Apollo 17, after Cernan injured his knee playing softball a few months before the flight.

This was planned to be tested during Project Gemini on an EVA by Eugene Cernan from Gemini 9A on June 5, 1966.

The backup crew of Stafford and Cernan was promoted to the prime crew, while a new backup crew was created from the crew originally assigned as backup to Gemini 10.

The docking was canceled, though, after Stafford and Cernan rendezvoused with the target to find its protective shroud still attached over the docking port, which made it look, in Stafford's words, like an " angry alligator.

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

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.

Photo of Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan with the Earth in the background

* Triton College, site of the Cernan Earth and Space Center

* Cernan Earth and Space Center, a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois named in Cernan's honor.

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.

Cernan Earth and Space Center

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

* Cernan Earth and Space Center Home Page

Picture of Cernan Earth and Space Center

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* Cernan Earth and Space Center, a public planetarium near Chicago, Illinois

* 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.

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

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

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.

* 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.