Ronald Evans (astronaut) Ronald Evans (astronaut) Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, also one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Evans was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 5 in 1966 and made his first and only flight into space as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 17 in 1972, the last manned mission to the Moon to date, with Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. During the flight, he orbited
NASA Astronaut Group 2 damaged station. Jim Lovell, for commanding Apollo 13. Thomas P. Stafford, for commanding the international Cold War Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Ed White, killed on Apollo 1. John Young, for commanding the first Space Shuttle mission STS-1. The first episode, "Can We Do This?", of the HBO miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon" depicts the first meeting of the New Nine. The eleventh episode, "The Original Wives' Club", depicts how the space program affected the wives of this group. NASA Astronaut Group 2 NASA's Astronaut Group 2, also known as The New Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected