List of Gene Cernan Quotes

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.

Chemical Propulsion Is Obsolete To Go Anywhere Other Than The Moon.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.

Ok, Let's Get This Mother Out Of Here.

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.

Neil Armstrong Was Probably One Of The Most Human Guys I've Ever Known In My Life.

Get The Shuttle Out Of The Garage. It's In Its Prime Of Its Life. How Could We Just Put It Away?

People Try To Typecast Astronauts As Heroic And Superhuman. We're Only Human Beings.

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.

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.

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.

I Think America Has A Responsibility To Maintain Its Leadership In Technology And Its Moral Leadership In The World, To Explore, To Seek Knowledge.

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.