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 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.

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

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.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, son of a Slovak father and a Czech mother, Cernan received his father's name, originally spelled Ondrej Čerňan ().

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.

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.

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

He served as a capsule communicator, along with Virgil " Gus " Grissom and Eugene Cernan, for the Gemini 4 mission, in which Edward H. White II made his space walk.

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

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.

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.

While Stafford and Cernan flew the Lunar Module in lunar orbit for the first time, Young flew the Command Module solo.

" After making all the necessary connections, Cernan rested for a few minutes while Mission Control decided whether or not to proceed with the planned test of the AMU.

Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan, in an article for USAToday have expressed strong support for the Constellation program.

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.

The original Cernan Space Center building, located north of the Learning Resource Center, was plagued by latent construction defects, and, after being used for several years, was demolished and replaced by the present building located nearby.

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.

* 12790 Cernan, A minor planet named for astronaut Eugene Cernan

* June 5 – Gemini 9: Gene Cernan completes the second U. S. spacewalk ( 2 hours, 7 minutes ).

Gemini 9 original prime crew ( front row, L-R ) Elliott See, Charles Bassett ; and backup crew ( back row, L-R ) Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan

An example would be the equipment module on Gemini IX-A, when it was modified to carry the U. S. Air Force-developed Astronaut Maneuvering Unit that would have been tested by astronaut Eugene Cernan, but was cancelled when his spacesuit overheated, causing his visor to fog up.

Stafford ( right ) and Eugene Cernan arrive aboard USS Wasp after Gemini 9 on June 6, 1966.

In June 1966 he commanded Gemini IX with Eugene Cernan due to the deaths of prime crew members Charlie Bassett and Elliot See.

* Eugene Cernan, Gemini and Apollo astronaut

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

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

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

NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew – Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt – all of whom took photographs during the mission with the on-board Hasselblad.

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.

The Cernan Center also features earth-and space-related exhibits, the Friends of the Cernan Center membership program, the Star Store gift shop ( with online shopping via its Yahoo!

This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 20 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 ( with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface ).

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.