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Gene Cernan Biography

Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ˈsər.nən/; March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the moon and, as he re-entered the lunar module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, is the last person to have walked on the Moon.

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I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Alien Life, Asked, Astronaut, Civilization, Said, Somebody

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Astronauts, Beings, Heroic, People, Trying

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

Flip, Ground, Half, Moon, Pounds, Seven

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

Done, Here I Am, Men, Moon, Says, Walked

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

Gods Will, Mankind, Peace, Return, Willing

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

Made, Moon, Nobody, Surface, Take

Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Country, New York, Place, Texas, Washington

Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

Dream, Hundred, Pyramids, Technology, True, Years

I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

Arrogant, Believe, Mathematically, Nowhere, Space

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

Curves, Evolve, Looking, Moon, Order

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

Geologists, Geology, Important, Moon, Seen, Talking

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one. . . and we had ignition!

Anchors, Aweigh, Countdown, Reached, Three, Two

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

Apollo, Dedicate, Firsts, Like, Moon, Possible

Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

Home, Mars, Moon, Obsolete, Technology

Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or the rest of my life - nobody could take those steps from me. People ask how long will they be there, and I say forever, however long forever is, like my daughter’s initials that I scribbled in the sand [TDC for Tracy Dawn Cernan].

Daughter, Dawn, Days, Long, Moon, Steps

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.

Granddaughter, Moments, Moon, Perhaps, Two

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Begin, Ifs, Mirror, Mirrors, Think, Thinking

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

America, Interesting, Looking, Space, Stopped

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Artist, Artists, Journalists, Space, Takes, Teacher

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Destiny, Explore, Fate, Nation, Space

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