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S66-25779_G08-H Agena at 210 feet, motor end turned 45* toward Gemini VIII, sea, clouds, limb, sky in background. Gemini VIII launched with some guy named Neil Armstrong in command, his first time in space. One of the primary objectives was to perform th
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You really have to hand it to the BBC. It devoted three nights to Stargazing, Professor Brian Cox’s attempt to convert us to his passion for the stars and explain the universe – all of it. I’d like to see ITV try that. Well, no, I wouldn’t actually. Here
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: Apollo 17 astronaut and the last man on the moon Eugene Cernan attends the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol November 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. The gold medals were presented to the... View Photo »
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President Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellation program, established by the Bush administration, which was charged with returning Americans to the moon by 2020 and creating an "extended human presence on the moon," h
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President Obama’s decision in 2010 to cut NASA’s budget and abandon the Constellation program – established by the Bush administration, and charged with returning Americans to the moon by 2020 and creating an “extended human presence on the moon” – has c
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President Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellation program, established by the Bush administration, which was charged with returning Americans to the moon by 2020 and creating an "extended human presence on the moon," h
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Astronaut Eugene Cernan (L), commander of Apollo 17, speaks with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Chair Maria Zuber before they testify to the House Science,... View Photo »
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President Barack Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellation program has created a vacuum that China will attempt to fill. Established by the Bush administration, Constellation was charged with returning Americans to the m
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It was a triumph not only of American science and ingenuity, but a ratification of our way of life and its superiority to communism. President Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellatio
About Eugene Cernan
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Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut of Czechoslovakian ancestry. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission,... Full Article
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Astronaut Neil Armstrong (L), commander of Apollo 11, and astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, testify before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee about human space flight on Capitol Hill September 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. ...
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Astronaut and commander of the Apollo 11 mission Neil Armstrong (L) shakes hands with astronaut and commander of the Apollo 17 mission Eugene Cernan before they testify to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee about human space flight on...
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: (L-R) Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, University of Alabama aerospace engineering professor Michael Griffin, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric and...
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Astronaut Eugene Cernan (L), commander of Apollo 17, speaks with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Chair Maria Zuber before they testify to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee...
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