text: who was the last person to walk on the moon?   eugene cernan was the last man to walk on the moon.  apollo 17 was our last mission to the moon.  it took off from florida on december 7th, 1972 and splashed down in the ocean 12 days and 14 hours later.  cernan and the first scientist-astronaut to land on moon, harrison h. "jack" schmitt, spend 75 hours on the moon.