Gene Cernan, captain of Apollo 17 and the last man to set foot on the Moon in December 1972, has died aged 82.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38641121
http://abc13.com/news/last-man-to-walk-on-the-moon-has-died/1705193/
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-last-man-to-walk-on-moon
Fully half of the twelve men to ever walk on the surface of the Moon have now left us.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38641121
http://abc13.com/news/last-man-to-walk-on-the-moon-has-died/1705193/
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-last-man-to-walk-on-moon
"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."
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."
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