Eugene Cernan

The command module of the Apollo 17 spacecraft in the museum at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo: shutterstock

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Eugene Cernan drives aboard the Lunar Rover during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, December 11, 1972. Source: NASA.

Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, has died