– Eugene Cernan (14 March 1934 – 16 January 2017)
Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon and as he stepped into the lunar module to return to the command module in lunar orbit he said these final words:
“Bob, this is Gene, and I’m on the surface; and, 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. 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.”
Eugene Cernan
Apollo 17 (7-19 December 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.
Now we await, Artemis.
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In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as Adam Smith said, “we naturally desire not only to be loved but to be lovely”.
Remember, hope lives here.
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