Checklist used by last man on the moon Eugene Cernan in 1972 goes on the auction

NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan wore the Apollo 17 EVA-3 cuff checklist while trekking across the moon in 1972 – the last time man was on the lunar surface – and the historic notes are now up for grabs.

RR Auction, is auctioning off several items from space exploration history, including the checklist served as a comprehensive guide for the extravehicular activity, offered preparation procedures, simplified maps of traverse routes and landmarks. 

The small book also included notes made Cernan for a speech he gave on December 4 - the last words spoken from the moon.

Also included in the auction are items from the first landing on the moon and first man in space: Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Personal Preference Kit and Alan Shepard's space suit glove.

All of the items have an estimated starting price of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Captain Cernan, a retired U.S. Navy captain, was the second American to have walked in space and was the commander of Apollo 17.

In December 1972, he had the distinction of being the 'last man on the moon' after he became the final astronaut to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module. He was the last human being to leave his footprints on the moon surface. 

Before leaving the moon, Cernan delivered a message to Earth while standing next to the American flag, which still stands in the lunar soil: 'I think probably one of the most significant things we can think about when we think about Apollo is that it has opened for us—'for us' being the world—a challenge of the future. 

'The door is now cracked, but the promise of the future lies in the young people, not just in America, but the young people all over the world learning to live and learning to work together.'