Test drive Astronaut Eugene Cernan checking the function of the Lunar Rover Vehicle LRV after the arrival of Apollo on the Moon Apollo landed in the TaurusLittrow region on December Cernan and Harrison Schmitt made three excursions on the Lunar surface totalling hours Cernan was mission commander of Apollo the last Apollo Moon mission and was thus the last man to stand on the Moon Cernan and Schmitt left the Moon on December returning to Earth with Ronald Evans who had manned the orbiting command module Apollo reentered on December