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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the moon landings? Most likely, it’s the statement: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. These words, spoken by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong as he became the first man on the moon, will be quoted and remembered for centuries to come.
But what of the last words spoken by a man on the moon? That man was Eugene Cernan, mission commander of Apollo 17, and his speech ran thus:
As I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for
