The American astronaut, Eugene Andrew Cernan, was born on 14th March 1934 in Chicago, where he grew up together with his parents, Andrew G. Cernan and Rose A. Cihlar and his sister Dolores Ann. His grandparents, on his father’s side, emigrated to the USA from the municipality of Vysoká nad Kysucou in 1903. His mother was of Czech ancestry. After he completed his secondary school studies, he joined Purdue University in Lafayette (Indiana). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1956. In May 1961, he married Barbara J. Atchley and in June of the same...