(WSPA) – The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan has died, according to NASA. NASA tweeted out the sad message this afternoon. Cernan was a Captain in the U.S. Navy and flew three times in space ...

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon, and who returned to Earth with a message of "peace and hope for all mankind," has died. He was 82. Cernan died Monday ...

Astronaut Gene Cernan risked his life during his first flight to space in 1966. A new book sheds light on NASA's Gemini ...

HOUSTON -- Funeral services are today for former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to have walked on the moon. Cernan's family says the funeral will be at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston ...

(Reuters) - Facts about retired U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, who died on Monday: * In addition to being one of 12 men to walk on the moon, Cernan was the third ...

AUSTIN, TX (KTRK) -- He was the last man to ever leave footprints on the moon, and this week Captain Gene Cernan premieres a new documentary about this personal journey at the South by Southwest Film ...

Forty years ago today, Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, climbed back up the ladder of his lunar module and took off from the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley — thus ending America’s lunar program.

We’ll ask that question a different way: Have you ever heard of Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt? Those are the astronauts that took the moonwalk 52 years ago to little fanfare on Apollo 17. It was ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, ...

"Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation's leaders and young people to not let him remain the last ...

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of “ peace and hope for all mankind,” died on Monday following ongoing heath issues, his family ...