Deceased· NASA · American
Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission...
Spaceflights
3
Time in space
11days
Spacewalks
4
Spacewalking
24 h 10 m
in total
Bars drawn to scale, 0 to 8 hours
Gemini 9A EVA
Jun 5, 1966
Apollo 17 EVA 1
Dec 11, 1972
Apollo 17 EVA 2
Dec 12, 1972
Apollo 17 EVA 3
Dec 13, 1972
Success· Flight 4
Harrison SchmittNASASuccess· Flight 3
Ronald EvansNASAHarrison SchmittNASASuccess· Flight 2
Thomas P. StaffordNASA
John YoungNASASuccess· Flight 1
Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. Since he re-entered the lunar module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he is the last person to have walked on the Moon.
Cernan traveled into space three times; as pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. Cernan was also a backup crew member of the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.
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