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Cernan died in a hospital in Houston on January 16, 2017, at the age of 82. [28] His funeral was held at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. [ 29 ] He was buried with full military honors at Texas State Cemetery , the first astronaut to be buried there, in a private service on January 25, 2017.
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 46– 116. ISBN 978-0-8032-8509-5. LCCN 2015042585. Cernan, Eugene; Davis, Don (2000). The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space.
NASA announced Monday that the former U.S. astronaut passed away, surrounded by his family, at the age of 82.
The autopsy report determined that the primary cause of death for all three astronauts was cardiac arrest caused by high concentrations of carbon monoxide. Burns suffered by the crew were not believed to be major factors, and it was concluded that most of them had occurred postmortem.
According to Gene Cernan, "the egos of Grissom and Borman were too big to fit into a single spacecraft". [45] Slayton therefore replaced Borman with John Young. [42] Slayton still wanted Borman for the two-week flight, which had now slipped to Gemini 7, so Borman was assigned as backup commander of Gemini 4, with Jim Lovell as his co-pilot. [42]
Apr. 24—A Silver Valley pastor who was reported missing Tuesday and found dead later that day died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Pinehurst Police Department. Real Life ...
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning Broadway actor, has died. He was 48. Creel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2017 for Hello, Dolly! and had also previously been ...
For his technical assignment, Stafford was tasked as an astronaut liaison for the development of Apollo guidance and navigation systems, as well as the command and service module. In late 1966, he was reassigned to Apollo 2 backup commander, with Apollo 10 crewmates John Young as the command module pilot and Gene Cernan as the lunar module pilot.