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Eugene Andrew Cernan (/ˈsɜːrnən/;
March 14, 1934 –
January 16, 2017) was an
American astronaut,
naval aviator,
electrical engineer,
aeronautical engineer...
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Cernans (French pronunciation: [sɛʁnɑ̃]) is a
commune in the Jura
department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in
eastern France.
Communes of the Jura department...
- 87°50′33″W / 41.9174°N 87.8424°W / 41.9174; -87.8424 (
Cernan Earth and
Space Center) The
Cernan Earth and
Space Center is a
public planetarium on the...
- set foot on the Moon or
traveled beyond low
Earth orbit.
Commander Gene
Cernan and
Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon,
while Command...
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Command and
Service Module (CSM)
while astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene
Cernan flew the
Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to
within 14.4
kilometers (7.8 nmi) of...
- Gene
Cernan with
lunar dust
stuck on his suit.
Lunar dust is
highly abrasive and can
cause damage to
human lungs, nervous, and
cardiovascular systems....
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after Gene
Cernan, and is
therefore the 12th and most
recent person to have
stepped out onto the Moon. When they re-entered the
lunar module Cernan stepped...
- spacecraft.
Their deaths promoted the
backup crew,
Thomas P.
Stafford and
Eugene Cernan, to the
prime crew. The
mission was
renamed Gemini 9A
after the original...
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December 1972, the last
crewed mission to the Moon, with
Commander Gene
Cernan and
Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
During the flight,
Evans and five...
- of the Moon (he
boarded the
Lunar Module shortly before commander Eugene Cernan).
Schmitt also
remains the only
professional scientist to have
flown beyond...
