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    Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ˈsɜːrnən/; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer...
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    (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...
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    in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon, with Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. During the flight, Evans and...
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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)...
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    Apollo 17 (category Gene Cernan)
    have 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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    Tracy's Rock (category Gene Cernan)
    Eugene A. Cernan spent considerable time studying the rock and its vicinity at station 6 during their third Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3). "Gene stepped...
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    you weren't going. That sort of gave it away." Even Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan did not get LLTV training for their Apollo 10 mission which was the first...
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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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    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...
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    NASA Astronaut Group 3 (category Gene Cernan)
    Apollo 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...
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    the 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...
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    Charles 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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  • Administration. Speakers include Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell, Jerry Bostick, Ed Fendell, Gene Cernan, John Llewellyn, John Aaron, Glynn Lunney, Wally...
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    Traverse Gravimeter Experiment deployed off the rover by Gene Cernan, during EVA 3 at Station 8 at the base of the Sculptured Hills, Taurus-Littrow Valley...
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    The Astronaut Monument (category Gene Cernan)
    Armstrong Charles Bassett Alan Bean Vance D. Brand Gerald P. Carr Eugene Cernan Roger B. Chaffee Walter Cunningham Charles Duke Donn F. Eisele Joseph Engle...
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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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    it, was added to the Apollo 17 plaque at the suggestion of astronaut Gene Cernan. Reproductions of the plaques were given as mementos to foreign governments...
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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...
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    Engle as Lunar Module Pilot. Schmitt landed on the Moon with commander Gene Cernan in December 1972. Schmitt claims to have taken the photograph of the...
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    Cooper and Pete Conrad in 1965 Apollo 17 Command Module America flown by Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, along with a biological...
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    Apollo 17 lunar sample display (category Gene Cernan)
    fifty U.S. states and U.S. territories, and 135 nations worldwide. Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt ended their walk on the Moon in 1972 with a dedication...
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    three of the men who flew to the Moon twice-Jim Lovell, John Young and Gene Cernan-were Gemini veterans. With the exception of Elliot See, every member...
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    Lunar basalt 70017 (category Gene Cernan)
    Lunar basalt 70017 is a Moon rock gathered in 1972 by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on the Apollo 17 mission near their Apollo Lunar Module...
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    crash. They were replaced on Gemini 9 by their backups, Stafford and Gene Cernan. Cernan was the second of the fourteen to fly in space. Lovell and Aldrin...
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  • Apollo 10 took "Stranger on the Shore" on their mission to the moon. Gene Cernan, a member of the crew, included the tune on a cassette tape used in the...
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    The Blue Marble (category Gene Cernan)
    generally credits images to the whole crew of a mission. All crew members, Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt, took photographs during the mission...
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    Shorty (crater) (category Gene Cernan)
    Moon, an impact crater in the Taurus–Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. It is...
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    mission. They and the backup crew for the mission, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan, were flying to St. Louis from their normal training base in Houston...
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  • Right Stuff] Julie Shimer as Future Astronaut (voice) Gary Sinise as Eugene Cernan (voice) [portrayed Ken Mattingly in Apollo 13] Peter Scolari as Pete Conrad...
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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...
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