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It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
Written by Gene Cernan
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
Written by Gene Cernan
We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.
Written by Gene Cernan
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.
Written by Gene Cernan
The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.
Written by Gene Cernan
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
Written by Gene Cernan
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!
Written by Gene Cernan
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
Written by Gene Cernan
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.
Written by Gene Cernan
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.
Written by Gene Cernan
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
Written by Gene Cernan
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
Written by Gene Cernan
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.
Written by Gene Cernan
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.
Written by Gene Cernan
As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
Written by Gene Cernan
Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.
Written by Gene Cernan
NASA has been scattered to the four winds.
Written by Gene Cernan
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.
Written by Gene Cernan
I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.
Written by Gene Cernan
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
Written by Gene Cernan
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.
Written by Gene Cernan
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
Written by Gene Cernan
If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.
Written by Gene Cernan
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
Written by Gene Cernan
Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
Written by Gene Cernan
Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
Written by Gene Cernan
To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
Written by 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.
Written by Gene Cernan
I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?
Written by Gene Cernan
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.
Written by Gene Cernan

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