Eugene Cernan was born on March 14, 1934 in the city of Chicago. Eugene graduated from Purdue with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Eugene also has an Honorary Doctorate of Law Degree and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering. He was an astronaut on the Gemini IX mission in 1966. Eugene was the second American to walk in space and he logged 2 hours and 10 minutes outside of the spacecraft. In total Eugene Cernan has logged over 566 hours and 15 minutes in space. Over 73 of those hours were spent on the moon. An interesting fact about Eugene is that since he was on the last trip to the moon he was one of the last men to leave their footprints on the moon. I connect