Gene Cerman died at the age of 82. He was in NASA’s 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon and was the last astronaut that walked on its surface.

On that day up there he had said that ”we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind”.

Of the twelve people that walked on the Moon only six are still alive.

Gene Cerman had also participated in two other NASA missions in 1966 and 1969. He retired at 1976 and worked on the public sector and the Media.