74 Quotes by Gene Cernan

OK, let’s get this mother out of here.

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.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

I’m quite disappointed that I’m still the last man on the moon.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that’s a very dubious and disappointing honor. It’s been far too long.

I’ve been asked about UFOs and I’ve said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror.

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.

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.