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We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Absolutely Any Being Capability Down Flying Form Garage Got Greatest Human Human Being Kennedy Kind Machine Nothing Put Shape Sitting Space Today Totally Unacceptable Which World

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

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Downhill Hold Hour Per Record Rover Speed Think World I Think

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If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Control Could Failed Flip Fly Ground Guidance Half Handle Like Million Moon Myself Over Pounds Seven Somewhere Started Stray Switch Thing Thrust To The Moon

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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 familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Around Back Because Beginning Chance Curves Earth Evolve Familiar Get Head Himself Horizon Look Looking Moon Order Out See Short Slowly Something Strange Sudden To The Moon Very You

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We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: After Being Darkness Daylight Moon Shadow Then Time To The Moon Way Whole

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

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Armstrong Ever Guys Human Known Life Most My Life Neil

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NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Been Four Nasa Scattered Winds

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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.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Always Background Belief Came Catholic Czech Devout Doing Family Gave Her Made Mom She Somebody Something Strong

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I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: Disappointed Last Man Moon Quite Still

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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.

~Gene Cernan

Topics: California Coming Country Education Even Exciting Kansas Most New New York Out Place Some Space Texas Washington York

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: March 14th, 1934

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