NASA’s Apollo space program stretched from 1961 to 1972, culminating in a dozen men walking on the moon in its final years. Gene Cernan, who died Monday, was the 11th man to set foot on the moon - but the last to leave the lunar surface at the end of his third and final moonwalk with Harrison “Jack” Schmitt.
The moonwalkers were, in order:
- Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, 1969. (Died in 2012.)
- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Apollo 11, 1969.
- Charles “Pete” Conrad, Apollo 12, 1969. (Died in 1999.)
- Alan L. Bean, Apollo 12, 1969.
- Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, 1971. (Died in 1998.)
- Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14, 1971. (Died in 2016.)
- David Scott, Apollo 15, 1971.
- James B. Irwin, Apollo 15, 1971. (Died in 1991.)
- John Young, Apollo 16, 1972.
- Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16, 1972.
- Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17, 1972. (Died in 2017.)
- Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, Apollo 17, 1972.
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