Gene Cernan Quotes

United States, Astronaut
March 14, 1934 – January, 16, 2017.

Eugene Andrew Cernan (March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. Since he re-entered the lunar module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he was the last person to have walked on the Moon.

Also known as Engineer, Air Officer

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

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

Gene Cernan
- Space
- Destiny
- Explore

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

Gene Cernan
- Music
I walked on the Moon. What can’t you do?

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

Gene Cernan
- Life
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.

Gene Cernan
- Book
- Today
- Space
NASA has been scattered to the four winds.

Gene Cernan
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.

Gene Cernan
- Space

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
- Country
- Education
- Space
Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

Gene Cernan
- Moon
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
- Time
- Moon
- Shadow