Gene Cernan

Morto Gene Cernan, L’ultimo A Camminare Su Luna

... dato che i membri dell’equipaggio originale, composto da Elliott See e Charlie Bassett, erano deceduti precipitando con il loro jet T 38. Stafford e Cernan, come riserve, sarebbero dovuti partire poi con Gemini 12, missione per la quale Cernan farà poi da riserva. La sua seconda missione fu il volo verso la Luna dell’Apollo 10, di nuovo assieme a Thomas P. Stafford e con John Young come pilota del modulo di comando. Era la missione preparatoria per il primo sbarcon lunare, che avverrà due mesi più tardi anche grazie al successo dell’Apollo 10. Il LEM, Snoopy, con Cernan e Stafford a bordo, si avvicinò alla superficie della Luna fino a 15.243 metri. Era il maggio 1969: Cernan era il pilota del modulo lunare. Durante la sua terza missione spaziale, Apollo 17, Eugene Cernan fu l’undicesimo uomo a mettere il piede sulla Luna. Cernan è comunque al momento l’uomo ad aver lasciato per ultimo la Luna, dato che il suo compagno di missione Jack Schmitt (dodicesimo ed ultimo uomo a mettere il piede sulla Luna) rientrò nel modulo lunare ...

Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On Moon, Dead At 82

... universe, and what you are seeing is being seen by human beings — human eyes — for the first time.”. Three days earlier, Cernan, Schmitt and Ronald Evans had blasted off atop a Saturn rocket in the first manned nighttime launch from Kennedy Space Center. Evans remained behind as pilot of the command module that orbited the moon while the other two landed on the moon’s surface. Cernan and Schmitt, a geologist, spent more than three days on the moon, including more than 22 hours outside the lander, and collected 249 pounds of lunar samples. “In that whole three days, I don’t think there’s anything that became routine,” Cernan recalled. “But if I had to focus on one thing. it was just to look back at the overwhelming and overpowering beauty of this Earth.”. “To go a quarter of a million miles away into space and have to take time out to sleep and rest. I wished I could have stayed awake for 75 hours straight. I knew when I left I’d never have a chance to come back.”. Completing their third moon walk on Dec. 14, Schmitt returned to the lunar module and was followed by Cernan. “We leave as we ...

Gene Cernan, The Last Person To Walk On The Moon, Dies Aged 82, Nasa Announces

... who also flew on Gemini 10, makes a few public appearances; he has painted and written books. JAMES LOVELL. Lovell, 88, was one of NASA's most frequent early fliers, best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which teetered on catastrophe. Their ordeal later inspired a hit movie, in which Lovell was played by Tom Hanks (the real Lovell makes a brief appearance as a ship captain). He also flew on Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and the Apollo 8 mission that circled the moon for the first time. He lives in Illinois and makes public appearances, sometimes with Aldrin. FRED HAISE. Haise, 83, was also on that aborted Apollo 13 mission. He was scheduled to command a flight to land on the moon, but it was cancelled. He served as a test pilot for the space shuttle prototype Enterprise and worked in the aerospace industry. Like many of the others on this list, he is in the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame and now lives in Texas. JOHN YOUNG. Young, 86, was the first person to fly in space six times, including a stint commanding the first space shuttle flight in 1981. Before that he flew two Gemini missions ...

Dick Gautier, More Recent Notable Deaths

... told USA Today. He also directed "Pretty Woman" and "The Princess Diaries." (Credit: Getty Images for TV Land / Joe Scarnici). ADVERTISE HERE. Michael Cimino. Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning director behind 1978's Vietnam War film "The Deer Hunter," died at age 77. The director of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, tweeted the news on July 2, 2016. A New York City native, Cimino made eight movies during his film career, including 1980's "Heaven's Gate" and his debut, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," in 1974. (Credit: Getty Images / Gareth Cattermole). Elie Wiesel. A prolific author, Noble Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Romania. He died at age 87 on July 2, 2016. (Credit: Getty Images). Pat Summitt. Pat Summitt died on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at the age of 64, the University of Tennessee said. She was the winningest coach in U. S. Division I college basketball history. Summitt, who coached the University of Tennessee's Lady ...

Gene Cernan, Last Person To Walk On The Moon, Dies At 82

... Anders and John Young. The center displays artifacts from the era of the Apollo lunar missions. Above the astronauts is one of the few remaining Saturn V rockets, the type used in the Apollo program. (Joe Skipper/Reuters). Ben Bridge is proud to partner with Omega Watches, NASA and the Seattle Museum of Flight to bring to the city of Seattle personal appearances by Gemini and Apollo Mission astronauts Captain Gene Cernan and Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford, as well as a spectacular Apollo XI spacesuit, a lunar rover and rare moon rock sample from NASA, that will be part of the visit on Saturday, April 28, 2007. (Photo by Kevin Casey/Wire Image for Omega Watches). Ben Bridge is proud to partner with Omega Watches, NASA and the Seattle Museum of Flight to bring to the city of Seattle personal appearances by Gemini and Apollo Mission astronauts Captain Gene Cernan and Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford, as well as a spectacular Apollo ...

Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On The Moon, Dies At 82

... module on the moon with astronaut Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt. Cernan couldn't hide his enthusiasm as he exited the spacecraft, saying, "We'd like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible. Oh my golly! Unbelievable!". Decades later, Cernan reflected on that moment in a 2015 NPR interview, no less thrilled to be the last, rather than the first, to go there. "The first steps had been made by others long before I got there. But those were my first steps.". Gene Cernan in the Apollo 17 lunar module after one of three moonwalks. Cernan is one of only three people to travel to the moon twice (Jim Lovell and John Young were the others). Before Apollo 17, he flew on Apollo 10, which was the mission just before the first lunar landing. On Gemini 9 in 1966, he conducted the second American spacewalk (which almost ended in disaster). Cernan had trouble controlling his body in the weightlessness of space. He became exhausted. His visor fogged up and ...

Murió Gene Cernan, El Último Hombre Que Pisó La Luna

... embargo, el último adiós de Cernan fue casi tan poético. "El desafío de Estados Unidos de hoy ha forjado el destino del hombre del mañana", dijo Cernan. Gene Cerman. REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters. La historia del último aterrizaje lunar dirigido por él ha sido recogida en el documental "The Last Man on the Moon", "El último hombre en la luna", de 2007, donde el astronauta explica las sensaciones extraordinarias que experimentó mientras pisaba aquella superficie incomparable. Cernan había servido anteriormente como el piloto del módulo lunar del Apolo 10 y fue piloto en la misión de Gemini IX. En el vuelo de Apolo 10, Cernan y el comandante Tom Stafford volaron casi 13 kilómetros sobre la superficie de la Luna, lo que sirvió como "ensayo general" para la histórica misión Apolo 11 dos meses más tarde. El astronauta acumuló 566 horas y 15 minutos en el espacio, de los cuales 73 horas fueron empleadas en la superficie de la Luna, según la NASA. Nacido en Chicago en 1934, se licenció en Ingeniería Eléctrica y obtuvo un máster en Ciencias de Ingeniería Aeronáutica de la Escuela Naval de Postgrado de Estados Unidos. Fue capitán de la Armada y seleccionado en el tercer grupo de ...