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Cernan died in a hospital in Houston on January 16, 2017, at the age of 82. [28] His funeral was held at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. [ 29 ] He was buried with full military honors at Texas State Cemetery , the first astronaut to be buried there, in a private service on January 25, 2017.
NASA announced Monday that the former U.S. astronaut passed away, surrounded by his family, at the age of 82.
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
Young and Cernan each set foot on it during their respective second lunar missions, while Lovell is the only person to have flown to the Moon twice without landing. During Cernan's first lunar mission on Apollo 10, he tied the present record set by Bill Anders on Apollo 8 as the youngest person to fly to the Moon. Each was 35 years and 65 days ...
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond Gene Kranz, Simon and Schuster, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7432-0079-0; Lost Moon by James Lovell (ISBN 0-671-53464-5) The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Gene Cernan (ISBN 0-312-19906-6)
It was 1992 when Gene Bowen hit rock bottom. As a tour manager for various rock bands in the ‘80s, his daily routine included getting drugs for the musicians and road crews he worked with. He ...
Apr. 24—A Silver Valley pastor who was reported missing Tuesday and found dead later that day died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Pinehurst Police Department. Real Life ...
Cernan also felt excruciating pain as he moved back into his seat, as his suit was still fully pressurized and he had to move down far enough for the hatch to close. [10] He and Stafford managed to get the hatch closed and the cabin repressurized. Cernan had spent 128 minutes outside the spacecraft. The Gemini spacesuit was air-cooled.