Eugene Cernan

) Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12 Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 space missions. Cernan's story of leaving the initials of his daughter Tracy written on a rock on the Moon was widely mentioned in the 20th episode of the 3rd season of Modern Family. Project Gemini
Cernan was originally selected as back-up pilot for Gemini 9 with Thomas Stafford but when the prime crew was killed in a plane crash they then became the prime crew.

(Crewmate Harrison Schmitt was "the last man to arrive on the Moon" as Cernan left the module first. He has been into space three times: as pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972 the final Apollo lunar landing.