December 13, 1972 –
Astronaut Gene Cernan climbed into his Lunar Module Challenger on the Moon and prepared to lift off on this date. He currently is the last man to set foot on the moon. Besides his footprints, the astronaut left his daughter’s initials scrawled in the lunar dust.
The last official words on the moon, as Cernan climbed the ladder, were “God willing, we shall return,” he said. What Cernan to his crew, as they prepared to launch from the lunar surface: “All right, let’s get this mother out of here and go home.“
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