June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
... station, Skylab. A simple but amusing trick was played on Eugene Cernan, the Commander of the Apollo-17 Mission, who was to ...to play to Houston as if it were a conversation! Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan managed to get to the Moon but not before he had ...
06 July 2018
ESA investigates health risk of living on the Moon
... the soil to sustain human missions on the Moon, explains science advisor Aidan Cowley. NASA astronaut commander Eugene Cernan inside the lunar module on the Moon after his second moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission, with his...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... chance to head NASA’s final mission of the Apollo program – Apollo 17 – as its commander; the position instead went to Eugene Cernan, who became the last person to follow in Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s dusty lunar footprints. Despite the prestige...
