Cernan got ready to climb the ladder he spoke these words, the last currently spoken by a human standing on the moon's surface: "Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."[1]
hensley hitch
home defense
Subject: That America's challeng 
Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:42 am