US Astronaut Gene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86

Former U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the surface of the moon, died Monday at age 82. The U.S. space agency, NASA, gave no cause of death in announcing the news. Cernan was a Navy captain when NASA chose him and 13 other astronauts for the pioneering Apollo program, created after President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Last words Cernan flew on Apollo 10 in May 1969, the final test flight...

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