74 Quotes by Gene Cernan

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.

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

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

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.

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

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

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

I wish I could send you some. It's amazing stuff.

That's a very disappointing handle that people put on me.