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Box 23

 Container

Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

Space Explorers poster, from Air & Space, Smithsonian Institution , 1988

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 3, Sub-Series 4, File 15
Scope and Contents The poster depicts the two hundred four individuals, including Cernan, that orbited Earth at least once by the end of 1987.)
Dates: 1988

Certificate of membership, Explorers Club, September 8, 1999

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 16
Identifier:  MSA 288, Series 3, Sub-Series 4, File 16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Hearings on NASA Human Spaceflight past, present, and future, and related documents, 2010-2012; material written about Cernan for brochures,1966-2017; and Board information. There are also a few miscealleous items; Stenographic Transcript of Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, "The Path from Leo to Mars," Washington, DC, September 12, 2012; Correspondence and Items related to Cernan's work with Ω OMEGA, circa 1990s (providers of the Speedmaster watch worn on...
Dates: September 8, 1999

Program from Cernan's memorial service, January 16, 2017

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSA 288, Series 3, Sub-Series 4, File 17
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Hearings on NASA Human Spaceflight past, present, and future, and related documents, 2010-2012; material written about Cernan for brochures,1966-2017; and Board information. There are also a few miscealleous items; Stenographic Transcript of Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, "The Path from Leo to Mars," Washington, DC, September 12, 2012; Correspondence and Items related to Cernan's work with Ω OMEGA, circa 1990s (providers of the Speedmaster watch worn on...
Dates: January 16, 2017