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... -carrying Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (commander), John W. Young ( Command Module CM pilot), and Eugene A. Cernan pilot)-entered initial parking orbit with 118.1-mi (189.9-km) apogee and 114 ... GET for two hours of housekeeping activities and communications test. On fifth day Stafford and Cernan entered Lunar Module LM and checked out all systems before firing SM reaction control system ...

... helicopter crash in Indian River near Kennedy Space Center KSC -in which pilot, Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan , escaped injury-had named misjudgment in estimating altitude as primary cause, NASA announced. Mitigating factors ... smoothness, change in sun reflection on water caused by change in course, and possibility that Cernan's experience with high-speed aircraft might have contributed to altitude misjudgment in slower craft ...

... .S. participants included Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan and Apollo 16 commander John W. Young. The 1972 FAT Gold Space Medal was presented to Cernan in recognition of the Dec. 7-19 ... all of its goals and magnificently concluded the extraordinary and highly successful Apollo pro-gram." Cernan also received the 1972 De la Vaulx Medal for his absolute world record of 21 ...

... complex volcanic features. The training, extending over three days, was for "student" astronauts Gene Cernan , Russell “Rusty” Schweickart and Roger Chaffee . By this time, based on Mueller’s edict ... > Image:Apollo Training.002.jpg '''Meteor Crater, Arizona''' Image:Apollo Training.003.jpg '''Eugene "Gene" Shoemaker (1928-1997)''' Image:Apollo Training.004.jpg '''Gene Shoemaker lecturing to ...

Sun had blinded GEMINI IX Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan for more than two minutes of the critical liftoff period June 3, preventing them from ... a serious problem. Coverings would be sprung free of windows when spacecraft had achieved orbit. Cernan's suggestion of sunglasses would probably be rejected, NASA said, because it would be impossible ...

... Pentagon ceremony, Chief of Naval Operations Adm . David L. McDonald presented astronaut wings to Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan (LCdr., USN) who set a world record for length of "walk in space" during ... as the aircraft carrier and dozen ships assigned to NASA. Speaking later at NASA Hq., Cernan said that what a man needed in space to do useful work was a "three ...

... carrying Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (commander), John W. Young ( Command Module CM pilot), and Eugene A. Cernan (LM pilot), on eight-day lunar orbital mission. Final decision to fly mission as previously ... landing mission. While spacecraft circled moon at 69-mi (111.0-km) altitude, Stafford and Cernan would separate Lunar Module LM from , pilot Lunar Module LM twice to within 10 mi ...

... Apollo 14 backup pilot Eugene A. Cernan narrowly escaped death when helicopter in which he was practicing lunar landing maneuvers crashed and ... Indian River near Kennedy Space Center KSC . After leaping from helicopter and swimming toward shore Cernan was rescued and taken to Patrick AFB for treatment of minor cuts and bruises and ...

... occur about 45 minutes later than ... in the past." Countdown preparations were proceeding normally. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt were scheduled to land Dec. 11 on flat valley ... ) from lunar module. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans would remain in lunar orbit in command module. Cernan and Schmitt were to rejoin cM at 5:56 pm EST Dec. 16. Splashdown was ...

... to be able to understand how to utilize the resources of that Earth." Astro­naut Eugene A. Cernan said lunar study might "tell us something about the possibility of some ancient existence of some civilization . . . pos­sibly within our own universe." Cernan and Astronaut Ronald E. Evans said they planned to stay in the space program. Schmitt ...

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