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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:27 am
As I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:27 am
That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
as we leave the Moon at Taurus–Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
He and his crewmates returned to Earth on Dec. 19, 1972.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
Cernan recalled that he was tempted to fly on the shuttle, and he probably could have flown a couple of the early missions.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
after being to the moon, he was not as inclined to do it. That's why he left the agency in 1976, he said.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
You wouldn't get me up there to do that. Once you've gone to the moon, staying home just isn't good enough."
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am
Cernan left NASA for private business, which included starting the company The Cernan Co. for management and consulting in areas such as aerospace.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 am
While he did not fly the shuttle, he did report on it for ABC for a time.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 am
He also was chair of the board for Johnson Engineering, a company that specialized in space crew stations.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 am
Speaking in his NASA oral interview, Cernan recalled a speech he had given in 1973 about Apollo 17's legacy. Most of his feelings on that hadn't changed three decades later, he said.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 am
"I said, 'I've been tired of being called the end. Apollo 17 is not the end.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 am
It's just the beginning of a whole new era in the history of mankind.' Of course at that time I said, 'We're not only going to go back to the moon, we will be on our way to Mars by the turn of the century.' "
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:30 am
Eugene Cernan: Last Man on the Moon
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:30 am
Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon. He visited the moon's neighborhood twice, aboard Apollo 10 and Apollo 17, and also did a challenging spacewalk aboard Gemini 9.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:31 am
While he chose not to fly in the shuttle program, Cernan remained involved in space as a motivational speaker and sometime television commentator who worked on ABC broadcasts about the space shuttle.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:31 am
He died on January 16, 2017.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:31 am
Cernan was eager to walk on the moon on Apollo 17, his next assignment; his previous mission had come so close.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:31 am
This time, he was ready to bring his spacecraft all the way – on pilot's terms, of course.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:32 am
"There's no way I'm going to go all the way to the moon, particularly for a second time, and let a computer land me on the moon.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:32 am
The arrogance of a pilot, particularly naval aviators, is too great to allow that to happen," Cernan quipped in a 2007 NASA oral interview.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
Cernan and Harrison Schmitt touched down safely on the moon to do three spacewalks while on the surface.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
With 22 hours and 6 minutes outside, Apollo 17 set the mark for longest extravehicular activity done by one mission on the surface of the moon.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
Meanwhile, Ron Evans, the command module pilot, set a record for most time orbiting the moon.
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Re: Who was the Last Man on the Moon?
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
The mission's greatest discovery came when Schmitt exclaimed that he had found orange regolith, or moon soil.
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