As America turns 250, how the moon is testing our ambition again
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American Journey: No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again, but hasn't explained why the trip matters.
Capt. Eugene Cernan bounded across the surface of the moon for the last time, clasped the ladder of Apollo 17 and paused.
“I believe history will record that America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow," he said in part, his comments recorded by NASA. "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."
It was 1972, and no one has set foot on the moon since.
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American Journey: No one has set foot on the moon since America left in 1972. NASA is heading there again, but hasn't explained why the trip matters.
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