Gene Cernan, last astronaut on the moon, dies at 82

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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

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