Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ˈsɜːrnən/; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer...
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Cernans (French pronunciation: [sɛʁnɑ̃]) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Communes of the Jura department...
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Apollo 17 (category Gene Cernan)
sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command...
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87°50′33″W / 41.9174°N 87.8424°W / 41.9174; -87.8424 (Cernan Earth and Space Center) The Cernan Earth and Space Center is a public planetarium on the...
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Apollo 10 (category Gene Cernan)
Command and Service Module (CSM) while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nmi) of...
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after Gene Cernan, and is therefore the 12th and most recent person to have stepped out onto the Moon. When they re-entered the lunar module Cernan stepped...
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Gene Cernan with lunar dust stuck on his suit. Lunar dust is highly abrasive and can cause damage to human lungs, nervous, and cardiovascular systems....
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Gemini 9A (category Gene Cernan)
spacecraft. Their deaths promoted the backup crew, Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan, to the prime crew. The mission was renamed Gemini 9A after the original...
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and A3400, and their nicknames were given by the Apollo 17 crew (Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans). The four male mice, one female mouse...
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the aftermath of the crash, the backup crew of Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan were moved up to the primary position for the Gemini 9 mission, scheduled...
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Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon. Here, he and Gene Cernan became the first to fly an Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending...
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December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon, with Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. During the flight, Evans and five...
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objects. Astronauts testifying to its visibility from space include Gene Cernan and Ed Lu; Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, meanwhile stated that he...
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canceled by the Obama Administration. Former astronauts Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, and Jim Lovell sent a letter to President Barack Obama to warn him that...
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of the Moon (he boarded the Lunar Module shortly before commander Eugene Cernan). Schmitt also remains the only professional scientist to have flown beyond...
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List of minor planets: 12001–13000 (redirect from 12790 Cernan)
14, 1995 Kitt Peak C. W. Hergenrother · 5.4 km MPC · JPL 12790 Cernan 1995 UT2 Cernan October 24, 1995 Kleť Kleť Obs. · 4.9 km MPC · JPL 12791 1995 UN4...
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and a Corvette for themselves. In his memoir Last Man On The Moon, Gene Cernan describes how this worked. The astronauts received brand-new Corvettes,...
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could be conducted. Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights (Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, and Richard Gordon), performed several EVAs, but none...
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(Apollo 16) Charles Duke (Apollo 16) Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) Gene Cernan (Apollo 17) Flew to the Moon without landing William Anders (Apollo 8) Frank...
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astronaut and Ed's best friend, based on Apollo 10's lunar module pilot Gene Cernan Sarah Jones as Tracy Stevens (seasons 1–2), Gordo's wife who later also...
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Bounce Ray Ritchie 2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Gene Cernan Voice role 2006 Open Season Shaw 2011 None Less Than Heroes: The Honor Flight...
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loop around the Moon. Three of the 24—Jim Lovell, John Young and Eugene Cernan—did so twice. As of 17 November 2016[update], under the U.S. definition...
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NASA Astronaut Group 3 (category Gene Cernan)
missions; five also flew Gemini missions. Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan and David Scott walked on the Moon. Group 3 was the first to waive the requirement...
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Bassett, in an air crash. The Gemini 9 backup crew of Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan became the prime crew of Gemini 9A, and Lovell and Aldrin became their backups...
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style. Eugene Cernan describes a "Bright Object" "Contact" features a recording from the Apollo 17 mission, where astronaut Eugene Cernan observes a "Bright...
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Lovell orbited the Moon twice (Apollos 8 and 13), while John Young and Gene Cernan orbited on Apollo 10, and both later landed on the Moon. According to the...
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Bassett. They were replaced by the backup crew of Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan, while Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin moved up from the backup crew of Gemini...
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entertainers John Denver and Cliff Robertson; astronauts Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Bill Anders, and Ulf Merbold; and test pilots and record-holders: Chuck...
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p. 177. ISBN 9781474261968. Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Donald A. (2013). The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space. New...
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On the first day of the mission, Gene Cernan erected it in Taurus–Littrow lunar valley. As he deployed it, Cernan said, "This was one of the proudest moments...
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