Eugene Cernan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Eugene Cernan quotes and sayings page 3 (90 year old astronaut). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 34 we have for him.
“I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.”
“It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.”
“NASA has been scattered to the four winds.”
“I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon.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.”
“The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!”
“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.”
“Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.”
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