NASA Administrator Bolden Issues Statement on Death of Gene Cernan
January 17, 2017
January 17, 2017
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued the following statement on the death of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan:
"Gene Cernan, Apollo astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, has passed from our sphere, and we mourn his loss. Leaving the moon in 1972, Cernan said, 'As I take these last steps from the surface for some time into the future to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorr . . .
"Gene Cernan, Apollo astronaut and the last man to walk on the moon, has passed from our sphere, and we mourn his loss. Leaving the moon in 1972, Cernan said, 'As I take these last steps from the surface for some time into the future to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorr . . .