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Last astronaut to walk on Moon, dies at 82

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Source: Alchetron

Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon died on Monday at the age of 82.

Cernan was also the second man to walk in space passed away, surrounded by his family, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement without providing details.

Cernan and fellow Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt became members of the most exclusive club in the universe on December 11, 1972, when they stepped from their ships onto the moon’s surface. He was 38 years old when he set off for the moon on December 7, 1972, as commander of Apollo 17. With Ronald Evans orbiting above in the command module, Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, a geologist, rode the lunar lander to the moon’s surface four days later.

Source: India Today

As records say, they explored for about seven hours each day and Cernan wrote that moonwalking was painful for him because he had injured a tendon in his leg two months earlier playing softball.

“Oh, my golly,” Cernan told mission control in Houston as he touched the moon. “Unbelievable.”

For three days, the moon was home for Cernan and Schmitt. They rambled more than 19 miles (30 km) in their lunar roving vehicle and gathered more than 220 pounds (100 kg) of rocks during their 22 hours of exploration of craters and hills.

“I knew that I had changed in the past three days and that I no longer belonged solely to the Earth,” Cernan wrote in a memoir titled “The Last Man on the Moon.” “Forever more, I would belong to the universe.”

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