that never knew the meaning of the word can t. i was still a boy when i watched cernan having the time on his life on the moon and the last visit for human beings on the moon. even as a kid i could see the kid in gene. a guy who didn t see his time up there as a mission but a passion. one that even drove he and his colleague schmidt to soar. da, da, da, da, da da, all along neil: i said gene was a hero, i never said he was a singer. i joked yesterday with gene as i have often shared with many of you on this show howmuch i wanted to be an astronaut when i was a kid. i did. i was a nut about being an astronaut. when other kids my age were collecting baseball cards, i was collecting astronaut autographs. i have quite an impressive collection. reading everything i could get on every mission that i could