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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1998-10-23  |  4.5 MB  |  150x150  |  10fps  |  1 minute, 30 seconds
Transcription: The American astronaut Eugene Andrew Cernan, born in Chicago in March 1934, is one of the most famous of all the space veterans. His first mission was on the Gemini spacecraft in June 1966. During this mission he went out of the cabin and undertook a spacewalk, becoming the second American to do so. Cernan's first mission was to fly the space shuttle to the moon. first close-up view of the Moon was in May 1969, when he and Tom Stafford flew the lunar module of Apollo 10, coming within 16 km of the lunar surface. Shannon's third and final flight was in December 1972, when he commanded Apollo 17 ...