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Gene Cernan

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Gene Cernan

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Auction Date:2011 Jan 20 @ 16:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Color satin-finish 10 x 8 photo of Cernan’s memorable Gemini spacewalk, signed in silver ink “’My Space Walk from Hell…’ Gene Cernan, Gemini IX.” In fine condition. During the mission, Cernan was supposed to have performed the first test of an innovative thruster-powered Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU) which needed to be accessed from outside the spacecraft. The AMU would allow Cernan to propel himself up to 150 feet away from the spacecraft and back. However, Cernan had to work so hard to prepare and don the AMU that the faceplate of his helmet fogged from heavy breathing. As he struggled with the AMU, Cernan accidentally broke an experiment antenna attached to the Gemini 9A spacecraft, which caused several small rips in his spacesuit. The helmet fogging, over exertion of Cernan and reports of ‘hot spots’ caused as the sun hit the tears in his spacesuit resulted in the AMU testing being canceled, and the spacewalk being cut short.