Lovell,along with Neil Armstrong, and the last man on the moon Eugene Cernan, recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama to express their opposition to his proposed budget for NASA.

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"I've been waiting for this day for 31 years, " said Eugene A Cernan, the last astronaut to set foot on the Moon.

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In 1969, U.S. astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P.

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