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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:40 am
Cernan joked in his autobiography that he feared his crewmate had "overdosed on rocks", but took a look despite his skepticism.
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Just before going back into the lunar module, Cernan drove the lunar rover roughly a mile away so that the video camera could photograph the takeoff the next day.
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Next, he knelt and etched his daughter Tracy's initials — T D C — into the dust, according to his autobiography, "The Last Man on the Moon."
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Years later, Cernan was looking at a painting done by fellow astronaut Alan Bean.
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It showed the Apollo 17 crew working near a massive boulder they had encountered during their mission.
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According to Bean's book, "Painting Apollo," Cernan said he wished he had put his daughter's name on the side of the rock.
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Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:42 am
Bean, therefore, included her name on the rock in the painting, which is called "Tracy's Boulder."
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"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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That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, 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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Cernan recalled that he was tempted to fly on the shuttle, and he probably could have flown a couple of the early missions. But after being to the moon, he was not as inclined to do it.
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That's why he left the agency in 1976, he said.
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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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While he did not fly the shuttle, he did report on it for ABC for a time. He also was chair of the board for Johnson Engineering, a company that specialized in space crew stations.
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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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"I said, 'I've been tired of being called the end. Apollo 17 is not the end. It's just the beginning of a whole new era in the history of mankind.'
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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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