Astronaut and Illinois Native Gene Cernan Dies
(Undated) — The NASA community is mourning the death of the last man to walk on the moon. Officials say Gene Cernan died yesterday at the age of 82. The Illinois native was the commander of Apollo 17 in 1972, which ended up being the last lunar mission and one of the final Apollo flights.
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