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 ...

[Apollo 17] EUGENE CERNAN AND THE ROVER AT THE TAURUS-LITTROW SCIENTIFIC SITE, FRAMED BY THE TOWERING NORTH MASSIF (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo Science ...

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, ...

On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...

Artists > Eugene Cernan > Artworks > [Apollo 17] HARRISON SCHMITT, THE FIRST SCIENTIST-ASTRONAUT, IN THE VALLEY OF TAURUS-LITTROW AT STATION 1 (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation ...

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.

This iconic image is that of the last and most famous photographic ritual of the Apollo missions: the “Salute to the American Flag”. It punctuates the last mission of the Apollo program and the period ...

Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Omega Speedmaster Chronograph was ...