Full Name | Eugene Cernan |
Net Worth | $1.7 Million |
Date Of Birth | March 14, 1934 |
Died | January 16, 2017, Houston, Texas, United States |
Place Of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Height | 1.83 m |
Profession | Astronaut, Fighter pilot |
Education | Naval Postgraduate School, Purdue University, Proviso East High School |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Jan Nanna Cernan, Barbara Jean Atchley |
Children | Teresa Dawn Cernan |
Parents | Andrew G. Cernan |
Nicknames | Eugene A. Cernan, Eugene Andrew Cernan, Eugene Cernan, Cernan, Eugene Andrew |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0148646 |
Movies | The Last Man on the Moon |
TV Shows | When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, Rocket Science |
Star Sign | Pisces |
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1 | [often, to people looking at his photographs from space] If you look closely, you can you see your house. |
2 | It's an overwhelming experience to watch a sunset on the east coast of the United States and the sun rise on the east coast of Australia, almost at the same instant. |
3 | You find the Earth is revolving, very mysteriously and yet very majestically, on an axis you can't see. All of a sudden, as the Earth turns, you look at Australia and Asia and Europe and the entire continent of Africa. You can look from the icebergs of the north to the snow-covered mountains of the pole at the south. It's just an awe-inspiring, overpowering experience. |
4 | And then you get to the Moon, and all of a sudden, for the first time, you're standing on something that is not Earth. You can climb the highest mountain of this planet of ours, or swim to the depths of the deepest ocean, and you're still on planet Earth. But when you go to the Moon, you're on another body in this universe; it's solid, and you can walk on it. And then you look over your shoulder, and you're surrounded not by a blue sky, but by a black sky. You're in sunlight, surrounded by the blackest black you can conceive in your mind. No one confused the blackness with darkness; it's a blackness that is the endlessness of space and time. And the Earth is three-dimensional in this blackness; it's dynamic and alive. It captures you, but you don't understand it; you can't show it to anybody, but you know it exists, because you saw it with your own eyes. Science and technology got you there, but it's like you're standing on a plateau where science has met its match. |
5 | [about the Apollo 17 launch being the first to occur at night] In order to get to where you want to land in December, and get the sun behind you at the proper angle when you land, it required us to launch at night. There had never been a manned flight launching at night, so we started out with a big bang. That night launch was one of the more phenomenal things people remember about Apollo 17. I heard all kinds of descriptions of what it was like, such as, "It was like a thousand suns." They could see it from Miami to Atlanta, up and down the coast. |
6 | Houston, the Challenger has landed! (Dec. 6, 1972, from the Moon) |
7 | As I step off at the surface of Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo Seventeen to all those who made it possible. Oh, my golly. Unbelievable. (Dec. 6, 1972, from the Moon) |
8 | [about gravity on the Moon] There have been a number of people in zero gravity, but only 12 people have ever experienced one-sixth gravity. It's a totally different world. I love one-sixth gravity. If I could turn Earth gravity into one-sixth gravity, I would! |
9 | [about the Lunar Rover] Driving that car was really something. You hit a little pothole and you've got one wheel off the ground half the time. It really allowed us to go places that we never would have been able to get to if we had to walk. The valley we landed in was about 20 miles long and about five miles across. The mountains that surrounded it just towered above everything else. We were able to cover that whole valley with the lunar rover. |
10 | As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just [say] what I believe history will record - that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17. |
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1 | For the launch of Apollo 17, by sundown on Dec. 6, 1972, about 700,000 people had gathered to witness the historic launch. More than fifty of Cernan's personal friends were there by invitation, including celebrities such as John Wayne, Connie Stevens, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Dinah Shore, Johnny Carson, and Eva Gabor. |
2 | Flew one Gemini and two Apollo flights twice going to the moon. Gemini 9 was scheduled to dock with an Agena target vehicle, but the protective shroud did not eject making it look like "an angry alligator" according to fellow astronaut Thomas P. Stafford. Flying again with Thomas P. Staffordand John Young, the crew flew to the moon on Apollo 10 without landing. The lunar module's call sign was Snoopy while the command module was called Charlie Brown. He commanded Apollo 17 flying with Harrison Schmitt and Ron Evans staying on the moon for three days becoming the last Americans to walk the moon to date. Their lunar module was Challenger while Ron Evans circled the moon in America. |
3 | Moonwalker (Apollo 17, December 1972). Last man to take his foot off the moon's surface. As a result his autobiography is called "Last Man on the Moon". |
4 | One of only three men to have visited the moon twice. Once from Orbit (Apollo 10) and the second time landing (Apollo 17, which he commanded). The others are Jim Lovell and John Young. |
5 | Two stepdaughters from second marriage, Kelly & Danielle. |
6 | One daughter from first marriage, Teresa Dawn, known as "Tracy", born 4 March 1963. He claims to have written her initials in the lunar dust just before leaving the Moon. Two grandchildren. |
7 | Crew member on Gemini 9 (1966), Apollo 10 (1969), and Apollo 17 (1972) missions. |
8 | Astronaut. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Larry King Now | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Suit Up: 50 Years of Spacewalks | 2015 | Short | Himself (as Gene Cernan) |
Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project | 2014 | Documentary | |
The Last Man on the Moon | 2014 | Documentary | Eugene Cernan |
Lou Dobbs Tonight | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Former NASA Astronaut |
Rise Above the Mark | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
Huckabee | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
America's Newsroom | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Former Astronaut |
Fox News | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
Fox Report | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
One Giant Leap: A Neil Armstrong Tribute | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
La fin des astronautes? | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Astronaute |
Stargazing Live | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
Moonbug | 2010 | Documentary | |
The Apollo Years | 2009 | Video | Himself |
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions | 2008-2009 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself / Himself - Apollo 17 / Himself - Apollo 10 / ... |
Hannity | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
NASA: Triumph and Tragedy | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Apollo 17 / Himself - Apollo 10 |
60 Minutes | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Astronaut (segment "A Bigger Leap for Mankind") |
The Sky at Night | 1982-2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Wonder of It All | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
In the Shadow of the Moon | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
Did We Go? | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself (as Cmdr. Gene Cernan) |
America's Astronauts: Mercury to Apollo to Today | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
Project Gemini: A Bridge to the Moon | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
Failure Is Not an Option | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Astronaut |
Rocket Science | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz | 2000 | TV Special | Himself |
95 Worlds and Counting | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Captain Gene Cernan) |
The Planets | 1999 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Apollo 17 Astronaut |
Destination: Mars | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Turning Point | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
CBS This Morning | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
Moon Shot | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Astronaut (as Gene Cernan) |
The Other Side of the Moon | 1990 | Documentary | Himself |
For All Mankind | 1989 | Documentary | Narrator - Apollo 10, Apollo 17 (voice, as Eugene A. Cernan) |
A Silver Odyssey: 25 Years of Houston Astros Baseball | 1987 | Video documentary | Himself |
Spaceflight | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Dean Martin Show | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
Apollo 17: Splashdown | 1972 | TV Movie | Himself - Apollo 17 Commander |
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