Topic: Charles Duke

Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired USAF Brigadier General, and a former United States astronaut and engineer for NASA. He is the tenth and youngest of only twelve people who have walked on the moon.

Duke married Dorothy Meade Claiborne, and has two sons, Charles III born in 1965 and Thomas born in 1967, and nine grandchildren. He and his wife reside in New Braunfels, Texas.

Charles Moss Duke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 3, 1935. He attended Lancaster High School in Lancaster, South Carolina, and graduated as valedictorian from the Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1953. He is also an Eagle Scout. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Sciences from the United States Naval Academy in 1957 and a Master's degree in Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.