# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-cernan
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:12.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gene-cernan"
name: "Gene Cernan"
slug: "gene-cernan"
description: "The last human being to leave footprints on the Moon. Cernan commanded Apollo 17 in December 1972, and when he climbed back into the lunar module, he closed an era — no one has returned since."
tagline: "NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-03-14"
deathDate: "2017-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Cernan came out of Purdue with an electrical engineering degree in the late fifties and went straight into Navy flight training, flying fighters before earning a graduate degree in aeronautical engineering. NASA picked him in 1963. His first trip off-world was Gemini 9A in June 1966; three years later he flew Apollo 10, the full dress rehearsal that swooped within miles of the lunar surface but didn't land. Then in December 1972 he got Apollo 17, the last mission of the programme. He walked the Moon for over twenty-two hours across three days — longer than anyone — and when he left, he knew he was closing the door. Cernan died in January 2017, forty-four years after that final step.