Talk:Eugene Cernan

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I thought the last words spoken by Eugene Cernan on the moon were "Let’s get this mutha outta here." rather than what is quoted on the page.

See http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/051003crbo_books for reference.

I'll see what others think and perhaps make the change; I think it's likely Cernan uttered both quotes so perhaps both could be included.

Thanks

I suspect the "last words" quoted are the "official" ones... Trekphiler 00:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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I don't see mentioned what I've heard: Gene was last man to drive Boeing's Lunar Rover on Luna. Add it? Trekphiler 00:05, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Title 2 Please re-title this article "Eugene Cernan." Here's why . . . 3 Format 4 Armstrong/Cernan/Purdue

[edit] Title

As far as I know, he is better known without his middle name. Should the page be moved? Reywas92^Talk_Sigs 21:17, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please re-title this article "Eugene Cernan." Here's why . . .

So how did the article about Gene Cernan get to be called by his full first-middle-last name in the first place? Neil Armstrong's article is just Neil Armstrong. Alan Bean's article is just Alan Bean. Alan Shepard's article is just Alan Shepard.

I strongly recommend that the entire article about Eugene Cernan be transferred to Eugene Cernan and that the Eugene Andrew Cernan page either be made a redirect page or deleted entirely.

I work for a planetarium that is named for Captain Cernan. I know Captain Cernan personally. Although like most everyone else, he HAS a middle name, he has never gone by Eugene Andrew Cernan. Sometimes he has gone by Eugene A. Cernan, but never the full three names.

If Wikipedia is striving for consistency -- and it should! -- then please look at every other article you have on astronauts and tell me that Captain Cernan's article should still go by "Eugene Andrew Cernan." For reasons that escape me, Wikipedia didn't follow its own policy when this article was first created. Subsequent improvements to the article were built on an article with an incorrect name. Two wrongs do not make a right!

Bart 01:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

You can post this at WP:RM to get a proper discussion. For the record, I would support a move back to the simple name (without the middle name), since he is better known this way and there is no need for disambiguation with other Eugene Cernans. Fram 14:13, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it should be Gene Cernan like he's usually called. AFterall, Buzz Aldrin and not Edwin Aldrin is the name of that article. And Gus Grissom, not Virgil Grissom. 70.51.9.86 05:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Format

Can someone make this more like the format of the other Apollo astronaut articlesPiersmasterson (talk) 16:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armstrong/Cernan/Purdue

I just reverted a good faith edit, noting that Cernan was "the last Boilermkaer" on the moon. It seemed awkward, even if you included a statement explaining what that meant. I just added a sentence mentioning that Armstrong and Cernan were both Purdue grads, but could not find a really appropriate place to add it. I certainly didn't want a trivia section, so I dumped it at the end. I still don't like it, but I am hoping that someone might think of a better place to add it, without creating a trivia section. LonelyBeacon (talk) 15:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)