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Farewell to Eugene Cernan, the Last Man to Walk on the Moon

Posted January 17th, 2017 at 12:51 pm (UTC-4)
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The final footprints he left in the lunar soil before stepping onto the ladder turned 44 years old a few weeks ago. It is a mark of America’s loss of cosmic daring that they remain the freshest of all of the many prints NASA astronauts made during the course of six landings.