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Cernan, Eugene

LC control no.n 98095652
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Personal name headingCernan, Eugene
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Birth date1934-03-14
Death date2017-01-16
Place of birthChicago (Ill.)
Place of deathHouston (Tex.)
Field of activitySpace flight to the moon
AffiliationProject Gemini (U.S.) Project Apollo (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States. Navy
Profession or occupationNavies--Officers Astronauts Electrical engineers Aeronautical engineers
Found inThe last man on the moon, 1999: CIP t.p. (Eugene Cernan)
NASA. Mission report, Apollo 10: p. 12 (Eugene A. Cernan born in Chicago, Ill. Mar. 1934, Commander USN, Astronaut)
Wikipedia, viewed May 4, 2012 (Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer)
New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 18, 2017 (in obituary published Jan. 16: Eugene A. Cernan; b. Eugene Andrew Cernan, Mar. 14, 1934, Chicago; d. Monday [Jan. 16, 2017], Houston, aged 82; commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972; last human to walk on the moon; received an electrical engineering degree from Purdue in 1956 and a master's in aeronautical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 1963)
Associated languageeng