Last Man On The Moon Shares Astronaut S Epic Tale In New Apollo astronaut gene cernan, with the saturn v rocket at nasa’s johnson space center in houston, looks back in the new documentary "the last man on the moon,” opening on feb. 26, 2016. (image. As the new documentary "the last man on the moon" opens, the camera pans across a crowd at a rodeo until it finds an older gentleman taking his seat. in fact, as that scene was shot, only one person, out of the thousands surrounding him, recognized gene cernan. "just one — the man sitting next to him," said mark craig, director of "the last man on the moon," which is openingin select u.s.
Last Man On The Moon Shares Astronaut S Epic Tale In New He flew three times to space as a member of the gemini 9a and apollo 10 crews and commander of apollo 17, the latter the final manned mission to land on the moon in december 1972. "the last man on the moon" recounts that history, as other documentaries have, but in doing so injects cernan's own unique perspective on his journey. "the last man on the moon," which premiered three years before cernan's death at the age of 82, shared the naval aviator turned nasa astronaut's "epic tale" of how he came to fly to the moon twice. Not a chance. but gene cernan, commander of apollo 17, tried to split the difference—as a scene in the new documentary the last man on the moon sweetly captures. before cernan headed off for his. After starting his career as a gung ho navy pilot in the 1950s, he was selected by nasa in 1963 to become part of its astronaut training corps. but the film is much more than a biography of cernan.
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