The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday confirmed on Twitter that retired
astronaut, Eugene Cernan, who was the last man to set foot on the moon has died
at the age of 82.
'We
are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to
walk on the moon'.
The
late Cernan who serve as spacecraft commander of Apollo 17, was one of only
three people to go to the Moon twice, and the last man to leave a footprint on
the lunar surface in 1972. The mission was launched on December 1972.
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