Gene Cernan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Curiosity is the essence of human existence.”
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“I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.”
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“I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.”
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“Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.”
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“Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.”
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“Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?”
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“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.”
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“I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.”
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“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.”
-- Gene CernanSource : Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.
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“We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.”
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“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.”
-- Gene CernanSource : "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.
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“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.”
-- Gene CernanSource : Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.
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“Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.”
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“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.”
-- Gene CernanSource : "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.
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“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. As I take these last steps from the surface for some time to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. Godspeed the crew of Apollo Seventeen.”
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“Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.”
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“Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.”
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“I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.”
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“The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.”
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“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?”
-- Gene CernanSource : Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.
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“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.”
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“Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.”
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“If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.”
-- Gene CernanSource : "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.
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“Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.”
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“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.”
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“People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.”
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“I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.”
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