Sad news for the extended Purdue family today, as Gene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon (to date) has passed away:
We are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon. https://t.co/Q9OSdRewI5 pic.twitter.com/gPdFTnXF2C
— NASA (@NASA) January 16, 2017
We have profiled Gene here earlier in our mostly off again series “Profiles in Badassery”, but before he became one of only 12 men that have set foot on the moon he was a Boilermaker.