On this day in 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan becomes the last person to walk on the moon. Both he and Harrison Schmitt completed the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission

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3 Comments

  1. So, who took the picture of the landing on the moon and the lift off from the moon ? Or film per say

  2. “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.”

  3. meanwhile, 20,000 more bombs and thousands of dead civilians in Vietnam in Operation Linebacker 2