Gene Cernan Quotes - Page 2

• One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Talking, Important

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• Sin duda veremos a profesores, periodistas, artistas y poetas en el espacio. Lo que haga falta para ser el mejor es lo que hará falta para ir al espacio.

  Gene Cernan

  Profesor, Artista, Espacio

  Chat en directo, www.cnn.com. 21 de enero de 1999.

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

  Gene Cernan

  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.

  Gene Cernan

  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!

  Gene Cernan

  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.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Two, Granddaughter

  Chat en directo, www.cnn.com. 21 de enero de 1999.

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• Yo era un niño de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vi películas de pilotos despegando de portaaviones y decidí que eso era lo único que quería hacer. Y tenía que ser volar desde portaaviones. Los aeródromos no bastaban.

  Gene Cernan

  Children, War, Two

  "Esto es lo que sé". Entrevista con Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. 15 de junio de 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.

  Gene Cernan

  Book, Space, Accomplishment

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

  Gene Cernan

  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.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Orange

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• Mamá siempre estaba haciendo algo por alguien. Era de origen checo, lo que la convirtió en una católica devota y le hizo creer firmemente en la familia.

  Gene Cernan

  Mom, Strong, Catholic

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• Algunos astronautas describen la descarga rutinaria de orina en el espacio, donde las temperaturas bajo cero convierten las gotas en una nube de cristales brillantes a la deriva, como una de las vistas más asombrosas que vieron en todo un viaje.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "Esto es lo que sé". Entrevista con Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. 15 de junio de 2002.

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

  Gene Cernan

  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?

  Gene Cernan

  Prime, Garage

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

  Gene Cernan

  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.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Flying, Machines

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

  Gene Cernan

  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.

  Gene Cernan

  Home, Moon, Technology

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