Documentary Tells of Last Astronaut to Walk on Moon

In 1972, Eugene Cernan and two fellow astronauts began what would become the last mission to the moon, Apollo 17. On December 14, 1972, after scratching his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust and setting up a remote camera, he stepped into the lunar lander and left the moon. Cernan assumed someone else would go back but, in his view, the U.S. space program then took a wrong turn. “There is no space program,” he said — a situation he finds disappointing. “We cannot even put an...

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