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.

On 29 September 2004, he visited Bratislava where he opened the exhibition called „Them man on the moon“ held in the Bratislava Castle. He had a meeting with the president Ivan Gašparovič and he was awarded a honorary doctorate honoris causa by the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.