Monday, January 16, 2017

Eugene Cernan Dead at 82

John Glenn and now this, I guess it's about that time that we start losing our modern explorers. The men who went to the ultimate "no man has gone before".
I honestly believe that the next time humans walk on another planetary body no on will be alive from the first.

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82

Cernan, an early NASA astronaut who was the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday, NASA announced in a tweet. He was 82.
Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972 – the last lunar mission and one of the final Apollo flights. When Cernan stepped out from lunar module “Challenger” he became the 11th person to walk on the moon. His lunar module pilot, Jack Schmitt, was the 12th. But as commander, Cernan was the last to re-enter the module, making him the last person to walk on the lunar surface.~snip~

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