Apollo Astronaut Gene Cernan Has Died at 82

Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan has died. Besides being a Naval aviator, a fighter pilot, and an engineer, he is best known as the last human to have stood on the surface of the Moon. Like every other astronaut of the time, Cernan was quite the character, with a storied life. He had been an Aviator for five years when, in 1963, NASA tapped him to be an astronaut. In 1966 he commanded Gemini 9A, the pre-Apollo mission for which he was part of the backup crew before the prime crew died in an airpl...