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Cernan was born on March 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois; [1] he was the son of Andrew George Cernan (1904–1967) and Rose Cernan (née Cihlar; 1898–1991). His father was of Slovak descent [2] and his mother was of Czech ancestry.
Cernan also felt excruciating pain as he moved back into his seat, as his suit was still fully pressurized and he had to move down far enough for the hatch to close. [10] He and Stafford managed to get the hatch closed and the cabin repressurized. Cernan had spent 128 minutes outside the spacecraft. The Gemini spacesuit was air-cooled.
See and Bassett were the prime crew assigned to the Gemini 9 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 for two weeks of simulator training for rendezvous and docking procedures at McDonnell Aircraft, the prime contractor for the Gemini spacecraft.
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Stafford and Cernan instead conducted orbital rendezvous maneuvers with it, including a simulated rescue of a lunar module in a lower orbit. [1]: 85–92 The following day, Cernan attempted an extravehicular activity (EVA), with the primary mission of testing the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU). After exiting the spacecraft, Cernan quickly ...
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
Surveillance images captured by MTA cameras in the F train car allegedly show Sebastian Zapeta standing in the mostly empty F train car, his hands in his hoodie pockets, as flames engulf the woman.
Married until his death in the 1966 NASA T-38 crash: Sue Ragsdale Alan Bean: Divorced 1976 Barbara Atchley (1961) Gene Cernan: Divorced 1981 Martha Horn (1957) Roger B. Chaffee: Married until his death in the 1967 Apollo 1 accident Patricia Finnegan (1957) Michael Collins: Married until her death in 2014 Lo Ella Irby Walter Cunningham: Divorced