Moon Walkers

Eugene Cernan, Commander of Apollo 17 and last man to walk on the moon, has died.  Of the 12 men who have walked on the moon, only 6 remain.  All of them are in there 80s.  Interestingly, both Cernan and Neil Armstrong - first man to walk on the moon - were graduates of Purdue University.  Cernan's space flights included Gemini 9, Apollo 10 - in which he flew the lunar module within 8 miles of the moon's surface, and Apollo 17.  Apollo 17 was the longest stay on the moon of any of the lunar landings.  For three days, Cernan and Harrison Schmidt vacationed on the moon, off-roading in a lunar rover and hiking the Taurus-Littrow valley in search of rocks.

 

With private companies now involved in a new space race, perhaps the remaining moon walkers will get to see mankind return to the moon and maybe places beyond.

 

RIP