5 Surprising Things We Learned from 'The Last Man on the Moon'

The new documentary "The Last Man on the Moon" views the Apollo program through the eyes of Gene Cernan, an astronaut who put humanity's most recent footsteps on the moon, in 1972. Before setting foot on the moon during Apollo 17, Cernan flew two other space missions: Gemini 9A, where he struggled during NASA's second spacewalk ever, and Apollo 10, in which the astronauts did "everything but" land on the moon, including approach the surface in the lunar lander. Cernan said he and astronaut Harrison Schmitt forgot to flip a switch as the lunar module prepared to move away from the moon, and the craft flipped end over end eight times in 15 seconds.

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