The Wonder of it All (2007)

Eugene Cernan: Self

Quotes 

• Eugene Cernan : It was to me like I was just sitting in a rocking chair on a Friday evening looking back home, sitting on God's front porch looking back home. It was really that simple, but it was an overpowering experience.

• Eugene Cernan : [about the Apollo 1 fire]  It's a cliché to say they didn't die in vain, Grissom, White and Chaffee, but they truly didn't. If it weren't for their sacrifice, and the mistakes we made early on in Apollo to get to the Moon as quickly as we could, we probably would have lost somebody on the way. But they stimulated the re-design of this spacecraft to allow us to get there safely and return home and get the job done; you know, and those three guys have never received the tribute that I think they deserve.

• Eugene Cernan : We had mountains rising above us on three sides that are higher than the Grand Canyon is deep, and we landed down in the middle of that. No trees, it's not green, no water, no, no Colorado River running through, nothing. How can something so desolate be so magnificent? I just, it's, it's, it's the moment of it all, I guess.