Astronaut Gene Cernan became the last man to walk on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission more than 40 years ago. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)When Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan testified before Congress in 2011, it had been nearly four decades since man had set foot on the moon. U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan, the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972, “the last man to walk on the moon,” died at the age of 82 on Jan. 16, 2017. Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, passed away today. “Too many years have passed for me to still be the last man to have left his footprints on the Moon,” he wrote.

Source: Washington Post January 17, 2017 11:21 UTC