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Last Man on the Moon
Dr Chris Lintott travels to the Johnson Space Centre to talk to the Commander of Apollo 17, Eugene Cernan, about his memories of being the last man on the Moon in 1972. Patrick Moore looks at lunar samples brought back by the astronauts and talks to NASA scientists about what they discovered.
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Although Eugene Cernan is credited with the title 'last man on the moon', a similar epithet was granted to his fellow astronaut on the final Apollo mission to date. Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt followed Cernan onto the lunar terrain and so became the last man to step onto the moon, but he then returned to the module before Cernan, who therefore remains the last person to have stood on the moon's surface.
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