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if I were asked you know if somebody

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asked me what would you want people to

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know about gene cernan and I think the

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biggest thing would be that he

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considered himself to be a you know

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middle American kid who had a big dream

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when he was a child and decided that

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that dream was worth pursuing and ended

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up becoming the last person to walk on

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the moon something that is absolutely

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incredible but also somebody who in in

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his last months of living his drive his

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motivation was trying to pass that same

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desire on to young people today to help

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them understand that just as he did it

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coming from small-town America they

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you know if you want to look at his life

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particularly the latter part of his life

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and what he was doing with relation to

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stim because that was very important to

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him he you know he said for a book which

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is always understand it's painful when

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you do that but he's he said for a book

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that told the story of his life and then

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he got together with a documentarian and

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did a documentary on his life called

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last man on the moon and he has his

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desire was to use that movie as a source

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of conversation to travel to youth

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groups and college campuses again to

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allow people to see that somebody from

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small-town America could in fact have

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giant dreams and could dream to do

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impossible things and and go on to do

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that if they were willing to study and

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work hard and pursue fields of endeavor

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that that were pretty difficult to Taman

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the technical fields science technology

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engineering and mathematics so that was

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something about which he was really

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he was just an incredible human being

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who who was passionate about his country

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and passionate about his dream and

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wanting to have others recognize the

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fact that they too could could share

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that same dream and go even farther than