Ronald Evans was an American NASA astronaut and United States Navy officer who served as command module pilot on Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final crewed mission of the Apollo program. While his crewmates Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt explored the lunar surface, Evans remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module, conducting scientific observations and photography of the Moon. During the return journey to Earth he also performed a deep-space spacewalk to retrieve film canisters from the exterior of the spacecraft.
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Ronald Evans was a NASA astronaut who flew as Command Module pilot on Apollo 17.
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- As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to fly to the Moon
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He is the last person to orbit the Moon alone and, at 147 hours and 43 minutes, holds the record for the most time spent in lunar orbit.
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Evans was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of NASA Astronaut Group 5 in 1966 and made his only spaceflight as command Module pilot aboard Apollo 17 in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon, with Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
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Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933, April 6, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut.
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As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to fly to the Moon, and one of the 12 to do so without landing.
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Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
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