#eugene cernan

[o-the-mts]

First Steps: America’s Grueling Second Spacewalk - NASA

One year after Gemini IV astronaut Edward H. White completed NASA’s first spacewalk the agency prepared for a demanding second excursion. Or

[scottishstoner]

Everyone talking about the crater on the moon being named after the guys passed wife which is adorable but I wanna take this time to mention Gene Cernan (last man to walk on the moon) who wrote his daughters initials on the moon in 1972, so every time she looked up at the moon she remembered that🥰

[travelinmatt67]

Eugene Edward Cernan

1934-2017

A message from the last astronaut to walk on the moon to those who will be next. I wish he could have been around to see this.

[rectanglejanett]

I’m sorry🥺

[simonh]

Eugene Cernan's Gemini IX Extravehicular Activity by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, pilot of the Gemini-9A spaceflight, is pictured outside of the spacecraft during his extravehicular activity (EVA). Gemini IXA was the seventh crewed Earth-orbiting mission of the Gemini series. Gene Cernan participated in the second American spacewalk one year after the first, but the EVA was nearly disastrous. Learn more about the mission. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: S66-38515 Date: June 5, 1966

[johnhodgeisbae]

Darn he was a babygirl

[ages-and-pages]

Apollo 17 on the surface of the Moon at Taurus–Littrow, December 13, 1972. Mission commander Eugene Cernan is seen here next to the Lunar Roving vehicle.

Photo taken by lunar module pilot Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt.

[mental-food]

I often tell young kids, and particularly my grandkids - don’t ever count yourself out. You’ll never know how good you are until you try. Dream the impossible and then go out and make it happen. I walked on the Moon. What can’t you do?

-Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17