Almost 35 years since anyone walked on the moon
Posted by admin, Fri Jul 20 04:57:21 UTC 2007
July 20, 1969: One Small Step … One Giant Leap …
Five more Apollo missions carried astronauts to the moon before the program ended in 1972. (There was to have been six, but Apollo 13’s mission ended in near disaster.) The last man to leave his footprint on the moon was Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan, on Dec. 14, 1972.
Considering that watching the moonwalks was one of the most exciting things I did in elementary school, I find it sad that we have a couple of generations going now, who never had that privilege. I hope that NASA, or even the private sector, can find a way to get there again soon.
