Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ˈsɜːrnən/; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer...

Cernans (French pronunciation: [sɛʁnɑ̃]) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Communes of the Jura department...

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 nautical...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gene Cernan with lunar dust stuck on his suit. Lunar dust is highly abrasive and can cause damage to human lungs and nervous and cardiovascular systems...

of the Moon (he boarded the Lunar Module shortly before commander Eugene Cernan). Schmitt also remains the only professional scientist to have flown beyond...

objects. Astronauts testifying to its visibility from space include Gene Cernan and Ed Lu; Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, meanwhile stated that he...

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...

the Apollo 17 LRV broke when accidentally bumped by Eugene Cernan with a hammer handle. Cernan and Schmitt taped the extension back in place, but due to...

spacecraft was named the S.S. Gene Cernan after one of NASA's Apollo astronauts, Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), the last man (as of 2020)...

(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...

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...

pens for $2.95 apiece (equivalent to $28 each in 2024). In 2008, Gene Cernan's Apollo 17-flown space pen sold in a Heritage auction for US$23,900. As...

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...

2026. Wiseman would be the first commander of a lunar mission since Gene Cernan on Apollo 17 in 1972. Reid Wiseman is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and...

(ISBN 0-671-53464-5) The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Gene Cernan (ISBN 0-312-19906-6) Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That...

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...

popular name. Geologist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt and mission commander Gene Cernan spent considerable time studying the rock and its vicinity at station 6...

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...

fifth crewed Mercury mission and the Gemini IX spacecraft flown by Gene Cernan and Thomas P. Stafford in 1966. In the 1980s, the six then-surviving Mercury...

outer layer of Chromel-R fabric, was made to the EVA suit worn by Eugene Cernan on Gemini 9A, to accommodate a planned test of the Air Force Astronaut Maneuvering...

Eugene A. Cernan tested NASA's first space suit, and discovered during the space walk that his helmet visor fogged, among other issues. Cernan's suit was...

could be conducted. Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights (Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, and Richard Gordon), performed several EVAs, but none...