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Box 15

 Container

Contains 18 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

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

Soyuz Configuration, 1973

 File — Box: 15, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSA 22, Series 3, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 11

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