The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Space Race.

CERNAN, Eugene and Don Davis.

Item Number: 139548

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

First edition of this revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American space program from one of its pioneers. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Brad – From the Moon! Gene Cernan Apollo XVII.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of space flight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to the moment when he left man's last footprint on the Moon as commander of Apollo 17. "Gene Cernan reaches deep into his innermost being to reveal with remarkable candor his reactions to the trials and triumphs of a pioneer astronaut" (Walter Cronkite).