Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.
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Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.
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Eugene Cernan's father was of Slovak descent and his mother was of Czech ancestry.
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Eugene Cernan was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Second Class.
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At Purdue, Eugene Cernan was president of the Quarterdeck Society and the Scabbard and Blade, and a member of the Phi Eta Sigma honor society and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.
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Eugene Cernan was on the military ball committee and was a member of the Skull and Crescent leadership honor society.
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In 1956, Eugene Cernan received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering; his final GPA was 5.
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Eugene Cernan made at least 200 successful landings on aircraft carriers.
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Eugene Cernan was originally selected with Thomas Stafford as backup pilot for Gemini 9.
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Eugene Cernan performed the second American EVA, the third-ever spacewalk, but overexertion caused by a lack of limb restraints prevented testing of the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit and forced the early termination of the spacewalk.
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Eugene Cernan was a backup pilot for the Gemini 12 mission.
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Eugene Cernan was selected for the lunar module pilot position on the backup crew for Apollo 7—although that flight carried no lunar module.
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Eugene Cernan fought to keep his crew together; given the choice of flying with Schmitt as LMP or seeing his entire crew removed from Apollo 17, Eugene Cernan chose to fly with Schmitt.
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Eugene Cernan eventually came to have a positive evaluation of Schmitt's abilities; he concluded that Schmitt was an outstanding LM pilot while Engle—notwithstanding his outstanding record as an aircraft test pilot—was merely an adequate one.
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Eugene Cernan piloted the rover on its final sortie, recording a maximum speed of 11.
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Eugene Cernan is one of only three astronauts to travel to the Moon on two occasions; the others being Jim Lovell and John Young.
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Eugene Cernan is one of only twelve people to have walked on the Moon.
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In 1981 and 1982, Eugene Cernan joined Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman on the extensive ABC coverage of the first 3 Space Shuttle launches.
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Eugene Cernan paired his criticism of the cancellation of Constellation with expressions of skepticism about Commercial Resupply Services and Commercial Crew Development, NASA's planned replacements for that program's role in supplying cargo and crew to the International Space Station.
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In 2014, Eugene Cernan appeared in the documentary The Last Man on the Moon, made by British filmmaker Mark Craig and based on Eugene Cernan's 1999 memoir of the same title.
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Eugene Cernan's funeral was held at St Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston.
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Eugene Cernan was a member of several organizations, including Fellow, American Astronautical Society; member, Society of Experimental Test Pilots; member, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Phi Gamma Delta, and The Explorers Club.
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Eugene Cernan was featured in the Discovery Channel's 2008 documentary miniseries When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, talking about his involvement and missions as an astronaut.
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