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.

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.

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.

* 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.

** 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

* Eugene Cernan climbed into the lunar module Challenger, following after Harrison Schmitt, to become the last person to have set foot on the moon, shortly after midnight EST ( the scheduled end of the moonwalk had been 0433 GMT ).

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.

* 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) or " Moonwalk " of Apollo 17.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

** Eugene Cernan, American astronaut

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

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.

* Eugene Cernan, Gemini and Apollo astronaut

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

The astronaut Gene Cernan uttered the phrase " Manischewitz " as an exclamation while on the moon.

* The lunar near-side globe map was added to the Apollo 17 plaque at the suggestion of astronaut Gene Cernan.