Gene Cernan

Morto Gene Cernan, L’ultimo A Camminare Su Luna

... su Luna. Addio a John Glenn, il senatore astronauta. Roma - Addio a Gene Cernan, l’ultimo uomo ad aver camminato sulla Luna. Lo afferma la Nasa con un tweet. Cernan, 82 anni, ha compiuto tre missioni nello spazio, l’ultima nel 1972 come comandante dell’Apollo 17. Eugene Cernan, astronauta Nasa dal 1963 al 1976, è deceduto questa sera. Avrebbe dovuto compiere 83 anni in marzo. Ed è un periodo poco felice per le grandi glorie tra gli astronauti NASA dell’epoca pionieristica: dopo la morte di John Glenn, primo americano in orbita, quella di Gene Cernan segna un altro momento di grande tristezza per l’astronautica americana. Gene Cernan era nato a Chicago il 14 marzo 1934. È stato un pilota collaudatore della Us Navy, e nel 1963 fu selezionato dalla NASA nei 14 astronauti piloti del Gruppo 3 dell’ente spaziale. La sua prima missione nello spazio è quella portata a termine con Gemini 9, partita da Cape Kennedy il 3 ...

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

... without giving details. Cernan and fellow Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt became members of the most exclusive club in the universe on Dec 11, 1972, when they stepped from their lunar landing module onto the moon's surface. Only 10 other people - all American astronauts - had done so before and none have done so since. Last man on the Moon: astronaut Gene Cernan (Apollo 17) on the Moon 14 th December 1972. "Oh, my golly," Cernan told mission control in Houston as he touched the moon. "Unbelievable.". They rambled more than 19 miles in a lunar roving vehicle and gathered more than 220 pounds (100 kg) of rocks during their 22 hours of exploration of craters and hills. "I knew that I had changed in the past three days and that I no longer belonged solely to the Earth," Cernan, a former Navy test ...

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... Bunch," died on Nov. 24, 2016. She was 82. Her manager said she died with friends and family by her side but did not reveal a cause of death. (Credit: AFP / Getty Images / Angela Weiss). Mose Allison. Jazz pianist Mose Allison died Nov. 15, 2016, at the age of 89. The 1950 s piano player's fame spiked in the '60 s when he became known as a singer-songwriter. His songs were covered by many artists, including The Who, who recorded his "Parchman Farm," and Elvis Costello, who recorded "Everybody Cryin' Mercy." He was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006. (Credit: Newsday / Michael E. Ach). Gwen Ifill. Journalist Gwen Ifill died of cancer on Nov. 14, 2016, at age 61, according to PBS. Ifill was the co-anchor of "PBS News Hour" for more than a decade. "I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend and beloved colleague Gwen Ifill passed away today in hospice care in Washington," WETA chief Sharon Percy Rockefeller said in a memo. (Credit: Getty Images / Don Emmert-Pool). Leon Russell. Leon Russell, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, died on ...

Murió Gene Cernan, El Último Hombre Que Pisó La Luna

... la Luna, literalmente. El astronauta estadounidense Eugene Cernan, el último hombre en pisar la Luna, falleció hoy a los 82 años, según anunció la Agencia Espacial Estadounidense (NASA). Cernan fue el comandante del Apolo 17 en diciembre de 1972, la última misión lunar y uno de los vuelos finales del Apolo. Cuando Cernan salió del módulo lunar "Challenger" se convirtió en la undécima persona en caminar sobre la Luna, el piloto del módulo lunar, Jack Schmitt, fue el duodécimo. Eugene Cernan, el último hombre que piso la luna. Pero como comandante, Cernan fue el último en volver a entrar en el módulo lunar, dándole la designación de ser la última persona en caminar sobre la superficie lunar. Sus palabras no llegarían a ser tan famosas como la primera frase de Neil Armstrong pronunciada desde la Luna, sin 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 ...

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

... said, 'Someday you're going to surprise yourself. Just do your best and someday you're going to surprise yourself.' ". Article continues after sponsorship. Cernan's final trip in space was also the final time NASA sent people to the moon, the Apollo 17 mission , which took off on Dec. 7, 1972. 'Hidden Figures' No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To Space. Four days later, Cernan landed the lunar 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. ...

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

... 'Columbia' Behind-the-Scenes Launch Coverage from Cape Canaveral. Airdate: April 12, 1981. L-R: EUGENE 'GENE' CERNAN; JULES BERGMAN. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images). Gene Cernan, a former U. S. astronaut, poses for photographs in front of a Bombardier Global Express airplane, at the Nagoya 2004 Business Aviation Conference at Nagoya Airport, March 2, 2004 in Nagoya, Japan. This conference to promote the aviation business is being held in Japan as it is their next target market. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images). Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, stands next to a wall of photographs he made on the Apollo 17 mission, at the Museum of Natural History in New York, May 7, 2004. Cernan, who flew on Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 and 17 missions where he was the second American to walk in space, and the last person to step on the lunar surface, now ...

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

... others. In 1973, Cernan became special assistant to the program manager of the Apollo program at Johnson Space Center in Houston, assisting in planning and development of the U. S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission. He was senior U. S. negotiator with the Soviets on the test project. He retired from NASA three years later. He worked for a Houston energy firm, Coral Petroleum, then in 1981 began his own aerospace consulting company. He eventually became chairman of an engineering firm that worked on NASA projects. He also worked as a network television analyst during shuttle flights in the 1980 s. A documentary about his life, “The Last Man on the Moon,” was released in 2016. Teresa was Cernan’s only child with his wife Barbara. The couple married in 1961 and divorced 20 years later. In 1987, he married again, to Jan Nanna, and they lived in Houston. In all, Cernan logged 566 hours ...