Gene Cernan

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Captain Eugene Cernan, astronaut.

The last footprint placed on the moon to date is that of Captain Cernan.

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The test of the lunar module, originally scheduled for Apollo 8, was pushed to Apollo 9, flown in Earth orbit by James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Rusty Schweickart between March 3 and 13, 1969.

All the pieces came together on May 18, 1969, when Thomas Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young blasted off the launch pad.

As a full dress rehearsal, Apollo 10 saw the astronauts perform every step of the Apollo mission profile short of actually landing on the moon.

Indeed, the lunar module carried on this mission was intentionally too heavy and its tanks only half-filled so that even if the astronauts had been tempted to attempt a landing, they would not have been able to lift off again.

However, it would also bring them down in a backup recovery zone in the South Atlantic, rather than their prime zone in the South Pacific.

while less than ideal due to a relative lack of recovery forces in the area this was the best that could be accomplished with a single correction burn if circumstances allowed further burns could be performed later to bring the astronauts down sooner and in the primary recovery area fearing that communications could be lost at any moment mission control scrambled to transmit the burn details to the astronauts in the form of pre-advisory data or pad but for the burn to be successfully performed the astronauts had to complete the final alignment of the lem's imu As soon as the crisis began, NASA powered up the CSM and LEM simulators at the Manned Spacecraft Center and dispatched a team of astronauts and engineers to work out all the emergency procedures the crew of Apollo 13 would need to perform, such as quickly powering up the LEM and aligning its guidance system.

While the film shows nearly all this simulator work being performed by Prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly, in reality, a large number of people contributed to these efforts, most notably astronaut training director Riley McCafferty and fellow Apollo astronauts Charlie Duke, Alan Shepard, Dick Gordon, Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Joe Engel, and David Scott.

Scott would later serve as the primary consultant for the film Apollo 13.

Lunar driving records have also been broken.

Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt covered 35.7 kilometres in their lunar rover back in 1972.

And the Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 robotic rover achieved 39 kilometres on the Moon the following year.

Of course, setting distant records on alien worlds isn't the main game.

Now a roundup of the latest news from the WGY newsroom, Glen Walrath reporting.

Astronaut Eugene Cernan walked in space today for longer than any man had dared before, but there was one big setback.

Cernan's attempt to roam in space with a Buck Rogers pack on his back was blocked when his visor frosted over.

The rookie spaceman was on the verge of pushing off at the end of a one hundred and twenty foot lifeline when he reported that he could hardly see.

Uh, John Young was another one that Anita correctly named.

The other one people forget about, Eugene S-- I think it's pronounced Cernan.

It's C-E-R-N-A-N.

So it could be Cernan, could be Cernan.

Apologies if he's listening.

Uh, the correct answer, three.

Jim Lovell was, yeah, Marilyn, Marilyn Gerlach.

Uh, John Young was Barbara White and Suzy Feedman.

Jack Schmitt

And Gene Cernan.

You'd think that I would remember everyone's names, but no.

Having just met him recently, yes.