Gene Cernan Quotes - Page 2

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• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

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  Responsibility, Technology, Thinking

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• We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

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  Teacher, Artist, Space

  Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.

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• I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

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  Thinking, World, Records

  "In the Shadow of the Moon", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

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  Home, Waiting, Mars

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• 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!

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  Anchors, Two, Three

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• 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.

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  Moon, Two, Granddaughter

  Live Chat, www.cnn.com. January 21, 1999.

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• I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

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  Children, War, Two

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

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  Book, Space, Accomplishment

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• It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

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  Fate, Destiny, Space

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• 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.

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  Moon, Color, Orange

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• 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.

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  Mom, Strong, Catholic

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• 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.

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  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

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  People, Trying, Heroic

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• Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

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  Prime, Garage

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• Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

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  Guy, Armstrong, Humans

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• 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.

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  Space, Flying, Machines

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• OK, let's get this mother out of here.

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  Mother, Apollo, Star Gazing

  "Ten key things about... space travel" by Anna Blackman, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Home, Moon, Technology

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