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Cernan is one of only three men to voyage to the moon on two different occasions (the others being Jim Lovell and John Young), and one of only twelve men to walk on the moon.
Cernan orbited the moon on Apollo 10, and landed on the moon on Apollo 17.
Cernan Earth and Space Center, a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois that is named in Captain Cernan's honor.
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  Eugene Andrew Cernan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cernan is one of only three men to voyage to the moon on two different occasions (the others being Jim Lovell and John Young), and one of only twelve men to walk on the moon.
Cernan orbited the moon on Apollo 10, and landed on the moon on Apollo 17.
Cernan Earth and Space Center, a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois that is named in Captain Cernan's honor.
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 Cernan, Eugene Andrew (1934-)
Cernan received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1964.
He was a CapCom (Capsule Communicator) during the joint Gemini 7/Gemini 6A mission and became the pilot of Gemini 9 following the death of a prime crew member.
Afterward he served as special assistant to the manager of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, before resigning from NASA and the Navy on Jul. 1, 1976, to become an executive of Coral Petroleum, Inc. of Houston, Texas.
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 Cernan Eugene Andrew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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Eugene is located in the fertile Willamette River Valley, which is...
Andrew, Saint, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ and the brother of Simon (later the apostle Peter).
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 Cernan
Cernan subsequently served as backup pilot for Gemini 12 and as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7.
Captain Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space -- of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon and was the last man of Apollo to leave his footprints on the surface of the moon.
Cernan began his EVA, which was to include flight with a USAF MMU rocket pack but the Gemini suit could not handle heat load of the astronaut's exertions.
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 Eugene Andrew Cernan Summary
Gene Cernan (born 1934) was the commander of a manned mission that touched down on the moon's surface in December 1972.
Cernan was born on March 14, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois.
Cernan, the commander of the mission, flew to the lunar surface in the lunar module Challenger with geologist and lunar module pilot Harrison H. ("Jack") Schmitt.
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Eugene A. Cernan, one of this nation’s most experienced astronauts, flew onboard the Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17 space missions.
In June 1976, Cernan resigned from NASA and retired from the Navy as a Captain.
Cernan has also served as a technical consultant with the American Broadcasting Corporation in support of their news and special events programming related to the space program.
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 Eugene Cernan - ExampleProblems.com
Eugene A. Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former United States astronaut.
He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, when he became "the last man on the moon".
There is a planetarium named in Captain Cernan's honor -- the Cernan Earth and Space Center on the campus of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois.
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 Gene Cernan
Cernan is also remembered for his assistance in the planning, development, and evaluation of the joint U.S./U.S.S.R. Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Cernan has received a number of honors and awards including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and induction into the U.S. Space Hall of Fame.
Cernan's account of his final voyage is captured in his book The Last Man on the Moon (1999), co-authored with journalist Don Davis.
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 Ronald Evans - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Evans' first and only space flight was as command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last scheduled manned mission to the moon for the United States.
He was accompanied by Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
While Cernan and Schmitt landed and worked on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, Evans remained in lunar orbit onboard the command module "America", completing assigned work tasks which required visual geological observations, hand-held photography of specific targets, and the control of cameras and other highly sophisticated scientific equipment carried in the command module SIM-bay.
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 Gapers Block : Airbags : The Last Man on the Moon
Eugene Andrew Cernan was born in Chicago on March 14, 1934.
Then, in 1963, Captain Cernan became one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA for the Apollo program, the ultimate goal of which was to land the first man on the moon.
Finally, Eugene Cernan earned the dubious honor of being the last man on the moon in December 1972, as the commander of the Apollo 17 mission.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Last Man on the Moon: Books: Eugene Cernan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eugene Cernan weaves a spellbinding account of his own personal involvement with the Apollo missions which led to him being the last man to stand on the surface of the moon.
Eugene Cernan flew in space three times,twice to the moon.
Cernans desciptions of emotions as he passes through flight training, Gemini and Apollo are a pleasure to read.
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 Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal : Crew
After Gemini 9, Cernan served as backup pilot for Gemini 12; and, then, he and Stafford were joined by Gemini 3 and 10 veteran John Young as the backup crew for Apollo 7.
Following Apollo 10, Cernan was assigned to the Apollo 14 backup crew as Commander, with Ron Evans as Command Module Pilot and Joe Engle as Lunar Module Pilot.
By the time Apollo 14 was flown, Cernan had become the first and only Apollo astronaut to have trained as both LMP and Commander.
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 The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space Book at Shop Ireland
Eugene Cernan weaves a spellbinding account of his own personal involvement with the Apollo missions which led to him being the last man to stand on the surface of the moon.
Eugene Cernan flew in space three times,twice to the moon.
Cernans desciptions of emotions as he passes through flight training, Gemini and Apollo are a pleasure to read.
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 eugene - Ask.com Web Search
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Mount Eugene is the highest mountain of the...
The city of Eugene is the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.
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 Cernan
Cernan's next assignment was backup spacecraft commander for Apollo 14.
In maneuvering "Challenger" to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful experiments, making the Moon their home for over three days.
Crew members were astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt.
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 Eugene Cernan | Science and Its Times: 1950-Present
Cernan joined the U.S. Navy in 1956, became a test pilot, and earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering.
In 1963 he was selected by NASA to serve as an astronaut.
Cernan also participated in the Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 moon missions.
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 The Last Man on the Moon Book at Shop Ireland
Cernans comment about Deke Slayton fighting tooth and nail to try and keep the scentists off the missions is very revealing.
Gene Cernan tells his own story in such a way that when you have to put the book down, you look forward to the next opportunity to carry on reading it.
However, it is more of a book on Gene Cernan, his wife and his ego, than an account of the space race and his time on the moon.
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 Apollo 10 Mission Log
Stafford and Cernan fired the descent engine on the lunar module to lower their orbit.
The plan now was for the descent stage of the lunar module would be jettisoned and the ascent engine fired to raise the orbit for the rendezvous with the command module.
As soon as the stage was jettisoned, Stafford and Cernan experienced a wild gyration in Snoopy's ascent stage.
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 Airport Journals
Eugene A. Cernan's story begins on March 14, 1934, in Chicago, when the second-generation American, of Czech and Slovak descent, was born to Andrew George and Rose Cernan.
Cernan was reluctant to accept it, knowing that his family would be footing the rest of the bill, but at his father's insistence, he took the reserve scholarship.
Cernan said the switches were just the beginning of an episode that "took on the mind-boggling confusion of the Abbott and Costello 'Who's on first?' routine." Shortly after that, Borman was scratched from Grissom's crew in favor of John Young, who had originally been Schirra's crewmate.
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Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934, Chicago, IL) is a former United States astronaut.
He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, when he became "the last man on the moon".
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Among the ancestors of the American astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and John E. Blaha are those of Czech and Slovak origin.
Eugene Andrew CERNAN was born in Bellwood (Chicago), Illinois.
His greatparents Stefan and Anna Cernan were from Vysoka nad Kysucou (Slovakia), Frantisek and Rozalie Cihlar from Bernartice near Tabor and Nuzice near Bechyne (South Bohemia).
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 Eugene Cernan - Wikipedia
Dabei unternahm Cernan als dritter Mensch nach Alexei Archipowitsch Leonow und Edward H. White einen Weltraumspaziergang.
Sein zweiter Einsatz leistete Cernan zusammen mit Thomas P. Stafford und John W. Young auf Apollo 10, der Vorbereitungsmission für die erste Mondlandung (Apollo 11).
Eugene Cernan und Don Davis, The Last Man on the Moon, St. Martin's Press, 1999, ISBN 0312199066
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Cernan was a Navy man with degrees from Purdue University, Drexel University, Western State University, and the US Naval Postgraduate School.
When the primary crew of Elliot See and Charles Bassett were killed, he and Thomas Stafford moved up to become the prime crew.
Cernan commanded Apollo 17 in the final manned lunar mission.
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 Cernan Gene, Online Directory only at myEweb.com
Gene Cernan was an American astronaut who was born on March 14, 1934, in Illinois.
Before he became an astronaut, Cernan was a Naval fighter...
Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty...
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That distinction belongs to Mission Commander Eugene Andrew Cernan, Commander USN, Command Module Pilot Ronald Elwin Evans Commander USN, and Lunar Module Pilot Dr. Harrison Hagen (Jack) Schmitt, Ph.D. (civilian) on Apollo 17, December 07-19, 1972.
The director could've prevented this faux pas by letting Duval play the role of Eugene Cernan, or one of the other astronauts.
He orbited the moon in the command module while Schmitt and Cernan landed and walked around, Cernan ultimately being the last to stand on the moon...
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 Apollo Missions to the Moon
During lunar orbit, Stafford and Cernan descended in the LM to within 14 km (18 mi) of the lunar surface before completing the first lunar orbit rendezvous with the CSM.
This eight-day mission was recovered in the Pacific Ocean and was completed less than two months prior to the planned launch of the first lunar landing mission.
Apollo 17 was the third extended scientific exploration of the moon and the final mission of the formal Apollo Program.
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 Cernan, Eugene Andrew - MSN Encarta
Cernan, Eugene Andrew, born in 1934, American astronaut, born in Chicago, Illinois.
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