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FILE âÃî In a NASA photo, Eugene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, walks towards a lunar rover at the mission's landing site in the Taurus-Littrow lunar valley, Dec. 13, 1972. Cernan, the last human to walk on the moon, died Jan. 16, 2017, in a hospital near his home in Piney Point, Tex. He was 82. (Harrison H. Schmitt/NASA via The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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