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Fifty years after Apollo 17, why have we not gone back to the moon?

By Mark Whittington
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Fifty years after Apollo 17, why have we not gone back to the moon?

Fifty years ago on Dec. 14, Gene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, spoke the last words a human being has spoken on the moon’s surface: “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.”

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