I do agree that you should not believe everything the government tells you, but
this one's not a hoax, several men have gone to,and safely returned from the
surface of the moon. You can take this one to the bank. I can understand if
you want to question events like the Oklahoma City bombing, 911, the Kennedy
assassination, among others, but the moon landing is not in dispute here.
Mark Martin, 73.
Mark Martin, 73.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kalan J. Weingartz
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:34 AM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Gene Cernan, Last Man to Walk on the Moon Dead at 82
Too young....I was born in '62....I was at MSB in '69....NO man has been on
the moon! Funny how everything our government tells us is believed!
On 2017-01-17 10:07 AM, Chris Rasmussen wrote:
You are too young to remember July 20, 1969 when America landed on the
moon, It's been proven that it was NOT a hoax...People just like to stir things
up.
Chris Rasmussen
From: Kalan J. Weingartz
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 6:06 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Gene Cernan, Last Man to Walk on the Moon Dead at
82
No man ever walked on the moon....
On 2017-01-16 05:45 PM, Steve wrote:
Dead
Born: 3/14/1934 in Bellwood, Illinois, USA
Died: 1/16/2017
Age: 82
Full name: Eugene Andrew Cernan
Noted For: U.S. astronaut; flew on the Gemini 9 mission in 1966; flew on
the Apollo 10 mission (as lunar module pilot) in 1969; as commander of the
Apollo 17 mission in 1972, was one of the last two of twelve men to walk on the
moon.
Quotation: "We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return,
with peace and hope for all mankind."
Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16,
surrounded by his family.
Photo gallery of Eugene Cernan
Cernan, a Captain in the U.S. Navy, left his mark on the history of
exploration by flying three times in space, twice to the moon. He also holds
the distinction
of being the second American to walk in space and the last human to leave
his footprints on the lunar surface.
He was one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. He piloted
the Gemini 9 mission with Commander Thomas P. Stafford on a three-day flight in
June 1966. Cernan logged more than two hours outside the orbiting capsule.
In May 1969, he was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, the first
comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification test of the lunar
lander.
The mission confirmed the performance, stability, and reliability of the
Apollo command, service and lunar modules. The mission included a descent to
within
eight nautical miles of the moon's surface.
In a 2007 interview for NASA's oral histories, Cernan said, "I keep
telling Neil Armstrong that we painted that white line in the sky all the way
to the
Moon down to 47,000 feet so he wouldn't get lost, and all he had to do
was land. Made it sort of easy for him."
Full oral history interview with Eugene Cernan.
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and the U.S. flag on the lunar surface.
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and the U.S. flag on the lunar surface.
Credits: NASA
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Cernan and Evans in Apollo 17
Credits: NASA
Cernan concluded his historic space exploration career as commander of
the last human mission to the moon in December 1972. En route to the moon, the
crew
captured
an iconic photo
of the home planet, with an entire hemisphere fully illumnitated -- a
"whole Earth" view showing Africa, the Arabian peninsula and the south polar ice
cap. The hugely popular photo was referred to by some as the "Blue
Marble," a title in use for an ongoing series of NASA Earth imagery.
Apollo 17 established several new records for human space flight,
including the longest lunar landing flight (301 hours, 51 minutes); longest
lunar surface
extravehicular activities (22 hours, 6 minutes); largest lunar sample
return (nearly 249 pounds); and longest time in lunar orbit (147 hours, 48
minutes).
Cernan and crewmate Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt completed three highly
successful excursions to the nearby craters and the Taurus-Littrow mountains,
making
the moon their home for more than three days. As he left the lunar
surface, Cernan said, "America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of
tomorrow.
As we leave the moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God
willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind."
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"Apollo 17 built upon all of the other missions scientifically," said
Cernan in 2008,
recalling the mission
as the agency celebrated its 50th Anniversary. "We had a lunar rover, we
were able to cover more ground than most of the other missions. We stayed there
a little bit longer. We went to a more challenging unique area in the
mountains, to learn something about the history and the origin of the moon
itself."
On their way to the moon, the Apollo 17 crew took one of the most iconic
photographs in space-program history, the full view of the Earth dubbed "The
Blue
Marble." Despite it's fame, the photograph hasn't really been
appreciated, Cernan said in 2007.
Earth Missions Image Gallery
This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on December 7, 1972.
Credits: NASA
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"What is the real meaning of seeing this picture? I've always said, I've
said for a long time, I still believe it, it's going to be -- well it's almost
fifty now, but fifty or a hundred years in the history of mankind before
we look back and really understand the meaning of Apollo. Really understand what
humankind had done when we left, when we truly left this planet, we're
able to call another body in this universe our home. We did it way too early
considering
what we're doing now in space. It's almost as if JFK reached out into the
twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time,
slipped
it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it
Apollo."
On July 1, 1976, Cernan retired from the Navy after 20 years and ended
his NASA career. He went into private business and served as television
commentator
for early fights of the space shuttle.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/us/eugene-cernan-dies/
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