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Interview with Eugene A. Cernan

Published July 6, 2011

At a June gathering of astronauts during SpaceFest III held at the Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, Atlantis’ final launch on Friday sparked strong opinions from nearly a dozen Apollo and shuttle astronauts. In 1966, Apollo 17 astronaut retired Navy Capt. Eugene A. Cernan, 77, (USN-retired,) Houston, Texas, and command pilot Tom Stafford manned the Gemini IX mission. He served as backup pilot for Gemini 12, was the backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 7, and flew as the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, the first verification flight test of an Apollo lunar module. Cernan became the last man to walk on the moon during his third space flight in 1972 as spacecraft commander of Apollo 17. He wrote "The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space," with Don Davis.


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Courtesy of Scripps Howard News Service

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