Box 15
Container
Contains 18 Collections and/or Records:
Gemini and Apollo, 1960 - 2012
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
1960 - 2012
Professional Career, 1960 - 2017
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 3
Scope and Contents
This series contains records pertaining to Cernan's professional career in the United States Navy and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as well as contextual materials. Holdings concern Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and include interview transcripts, awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included is correspondence relating to Cernan's...
Dates:
1960 - 2017; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1994
Gemini and Apollo - correspondence and papers, 1960 - 2005
Sub-Group — Box: 15
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
1960 - 2005
NASA - International certificates of vaccination, 1960 - 1993
File — Box: 15, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
1960 - 1993
NASA - Gemini IX, 1966
File — Box: 15, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 2
Scope and Contents
Included is a telegram from the FIGI's wishing Cernan well on his mission; a poem, "Gemini - Titan Nine," by Frank J. Idzikowski; transcript of radio WTMJ broadcast and television station WTMJ-TV editorial on Gemini 9 Mission; and Congressional Record extension of remarks by Honorable Harold R. Collier of Illinois in regards to Gemini 9 flight, dated June 29, 1966.
Dates:
1966
NASA - Eugene Cernan's Gemini IX log , 1966
File — Box: 15, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 3
Scope and Contents
Includes Cernan's typed and handwritten notes, and the cover is signed by Cernan, circa 1966; and Post Gemini IX log (copy).
Dates:
1966
NASA - Achievement awards, 1966 - 1969
File — Box: 15, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 4
Scope and Contents
Includes five NASA certificates.
Dates:
1966 - 1969
NASA - Transcript of interview with Gene Cernan - Apollo X, June 4, 1969
File — Box: 15, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
June 4, 1969
NASA - Transcript of interview with Gene Cernan - Apollo X , June 4, 1969
File — Box: 15, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 6
Scope and Contents
This is an autographed copy.
Dates:
June 4, 1969
NASA - Apollo X poem, by Ignazio Giacchino (with translation), June - October, 1969
File — Box: 15, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
June - October, 1969
NASA - Apollo XVII congratulatory telegrams and letters , December 1972
File — Box: 15, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 8
Scope and Contents
Includes telegrams from President Richard Nixon and California Governor Ronald Reagan.
Dates:
December 1972
NASA - Apollo XVII Splashdown dinner menu, USS Ticonderoga, December 1972
File — Box: 15, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series includes material from Cernan's participation in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and includes interview transcripts, and awards and congratulatory correspondence. Of special note are telegrams from President Richard Nixon and then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Also included are copies of official NASA documents pertaining to the Apollo program, especially Apollo 17. These include a report on communications systems aboard the Lunar Module, a press kit for Apollo XVII,...
Dates:
December 1972
"Apollo 17: The Beginning…NOT THE END!" program (Village of Bellwood, IL), February 1973
File — Box: 15, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 10
Scope and Contents
There are three copies of the program.
Dates:
February 1973
Soyuz Configuration, 1973
File — Box: 15, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 11
Scope and Contents
Includes diagrams and handwritten notes.
Dates:
1973
Navy - Retirement, 1976
File — Box: 15, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12
Scope and Contents
Includes a small navy personnel photograph of Cernan, his Department of the Navy paperwork requesting voluntary retirement, along with "First Endorsement on NAVCOMPT FORM-OCR 3067 (Detaching/Departing) Endorsement to Orders dtd 30 June 1976" paperwork and forms.
Dates:
1976
Post-NASA career and anniversaries, 1976 - 1989
File — Box: 15, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13
Scope and Contents
Includes an Apollo 11 20th anniversary program, and invitation to Cernan's retirement party, on which he had written a peronal note.
Dates:
1976 - 1989
Personal passports , 1980 - 2005
File — Box: 15, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 14
Scope and Contents
Includes four passports.
Dates:
1980 - 2005
Eugene A. Cernan papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 288
Scope and Contents
The Eugene A. Cernan papers document the military, aeronautics, and astronautics career of Eugene A. Cernan, as well as his subsequent professional and public activities. The papers also feature records pertaining to Cernan's youth, family, and education. The collection includes but is not limited to artifacts, audiovisual recordings, awards, books, certificates, coins, correspondence, documents, mission patches, newspaper clippings, photographs, plaques, publications, scrapbooks, speeches,...
Dates:
1934 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1956 - 2012