It now seems hard to believe given Russia’s current domination of space travel, but the Soviets never landed on the Moon. Captain Eugene Cernan was the eleventh man to walk on the lunar surface, but he was the last to leave. It is a notable distinction, but one he would rather not hold indefinitely.
Cernan reflects on his career as an Apollo astronaut and offers some advice for the future in Mark Craig’s “The Last Man on the Moon.”
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