cernan 2004 mEA Cernan visited Slovakia for the third time at the age of seventy - thirty years after the first visit, and ten years after the second visit.

cernan 1994 mIn 1994 he visited Slovakia for the second time after twenty years. The president Michal Kováč awarded him Slovak state honours – E. A. Cernan is the first to have been awarded by the Honour of White Double Cross and one of a few to have been given a commemorative medal of the Slovak Parliament.

cernan 1974He visited Czechoslovakia in 1974 at the age of forty (less than two years after landing on the moon), he was a guest of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and Smolenice.