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Person
Gene Cernan
American astronaut, commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to leave the Moon's surface.
- Dates
- 1934–2017
- Also known as
- Eugene Cernan
- Wikidata
- Q158486
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Timeline 1 date
- 1934–2017 Gene Cernan
Proof 1 source
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Apollo 17 at 50: A Historian's Look Back at Apollo and to the Future of the Artemis Generation, NASA.
Primary record
Leaving the lunar surface for the final time on 14 December, Commander Gene Cernan spoke the now famous quote, “We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.”
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