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Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of "peace and hope for all mankind," died on Monday in Texas following ongoing heath issues, his family said. He was 82.
Cernan was with his relatives when he died at a Houston hospital, family spokeswoman Melissa Wren told The Associated Press. His family said his devotion to lunar exploration never waned.
"Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation's leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon," his family said in a statement released by NASA.
Cernan was commander of NASA's Apollo 17 mission and on his third space flight when he set foot on the lunar surface in December 1972. He became the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon on Dec. 14, 1972 — tracing his only child's initials in the dust before climbing the ladder of the lunar module the last time. It was a moment that forever defined him in both the public eye and his own.
"Those steps up that ladder, they were tough to make," Cernan recalled in a 2007 oral history. "I didn't want to go up. I wanted to stay a while."
Source: ABCNews
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:00PM
ip.access to provide mobile coverage on the Moon by 2019 [smallcellseverywhere.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:11PM
It's no good. The ping times are killing me at around 1350-1400. Those app appers with ansible apps are apping me in the Star Marine app!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by bob_super on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:19PM
I just had the terrible thought of how long a "no, you hang up" teenage discussion could last with over two seconds of round-trip latency added in...
Can I get a research grant to test how efficiently it would extract confessions (fake or real) from Gitmo inmates?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @08:52PM
And what the hell is your fucking problem with that ping time? I regularly had ping times of 2000-3000ms terrestrially, back in 2012. Whinging sack of entitled shit, that's what you fucking are.