Quotes by Eugene Cernan

About Eugene Cernan:

Eugene Andrew is a former American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut. He launched into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing.
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Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

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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.

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Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

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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 famili...

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We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

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Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon.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 w...

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Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

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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.

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

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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.

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I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

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Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

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Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

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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.

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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?

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

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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 ...

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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.

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Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

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I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

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Author Bio

  • NameEugene Cernan
  • DescriptionRetired United States Navy officer and former NASA astronaut
  • BornMarch 14, 1934
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer; Aviator; Astronaut; Fighter Pilot
  • AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross