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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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 17 (category Gene Cernan)
set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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conspicuous than many other human-made objects. Veteran US astronaut Gene Cernan has stated: "At Earth orbit of 100 to 200 miles [160 to 320 km] high, the...
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pens for $2.95 apiece (equivalent to $27 each in 2023). In 2008, Gene Cernan's Apollo 17-flown space pen sold in a Heritage auction for US$23,900. As...
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by Gemini veterans Thomas P. Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan. Stafford and Cernan took the LM to within 50,000 feet (15 km) of the lunar surface...
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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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(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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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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the video, Sibrel also was able to interview astronauts Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, and Edgar Mitchell about the Apollo project. Bean, for instance, states...
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Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the Moon; and Eugene Cernan, who was the last person to walk on the Moon. The English department at...
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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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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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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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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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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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