Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon, dies at the age of 82.

Astronaut Eugene Cernan - the last man to walk on the moon - has died aged 82.
'We are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon,' said NASA in a statement. Details of his death were not immediately known.
Captain Cernan, a retired U.S. Navy captain, was the second American to have walked in space and was the commander of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon. In December 1972, he had the distinction of being the 'last man on the moon' after he became the final astronaut to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module. He was the last human being to leave his footprints on the moon surface.  He also held the unofficial lunar land speed record after recording a maximum speed of 11.2 mph during an Apollo 17 EVA.
In a 2007 interview for NASA's oral histories, Cernan said: 'I keep telling Neil Armstrong that we painted that white line in the sky all the way to the Moon down to 47,000 feet so he wouldn't get lost, and all he had to do was land. Made it sort of easy for him.'

Born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 14, 1934, Eugene Cernan - better known as Gene received his commission through the Navy ROTC Program at Purdue University. He entered flight training upon graduation and was assigned to Attack Squadrons 26 and 112 at the Miramar, California, Naval Air Station and subsequently attended the Naval Postgraduate School.
The Apollo 17 mission saw Cernan and his fellow astronauts land the Challenger on the moon where they would spend the next three days exploring and taking samples. It set new records for longest manned lunar landing flight, longest time in lunar orbit, longest time in lunar extravehicular activities and biggest lunar sample return. During that time, Captain Cernan logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space-of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon.