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Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ ˈ s ɜːr n ə n /; 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 11th human being to walk on the Moon.
NASA announced Monday that the former U.S. astronaut passed away, surrounded by his family, at the age of 82.
Astronaut Eugene Cernan during EVA. On the third day, Cernan began the EVA, which proved to be troubled from the start. After pumping up his pressure suit to 3.5 pounds per square inch (0.25 kg/cm 2), "the suit took on a life of its own and became so stiff that it didn't want to bend at all." He struggled to move inside his stiff suit. [9]
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.
Young and Cernan each set foot on it during their respective second lunar missions, while Lovell is the only person to have flown to the Moon twice without landing. During Cernan's first lunar mission on Apollo 10, he tied the present record set by Bill Anders on Apollo 8 as the youngest person to fly to the Moon. Each was 35 years and 65 days ...
Eric Weissman, the noted Hollywood entertainment lawyer who represented many actors including Gene Wilder, Elizabeth Taylor and Rita Hayworth, died Dec. 15. He was 94. Weissman’s death was only ...
Here, he and Gene Cernan became the first to fly an Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles (fourteen kilometres). In 1975, Stafford was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) flight, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission.
It was 1992 when Gene Bowen hit rock bottom. As a tour manager for various rock bands in the ‘80s, his daily routine included getting drugs for the musicians and road crews he worked with. He ...