Eugene Cernan

Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, CAPT, USN was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot, and was the last human to walk on the Moon, in 1972.

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft.

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He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing.

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second to orbit the Moon.

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon.

The abbreviation LM or lm may refer to:

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On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon and the most recent man to walk on the Moon, since he was the last to re-enter the Lunar Module Challenger after the mission's third and final extravehicular activity.

Extravehicular activity is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable atmosphere.

Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions.