Eugene Cernan Quotes
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
Citations
Cernan, Eugene, and Donald A. Davis. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space. St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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This quotation has become Known as “Stapp's Law.’
Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he was the last person to walk on the Moon.