Apollo 8’s moment of grace

As Eugene Cernan took his last steps on the lunar surface, the Apollo 17 commander promised to come back. “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow,” Cernan said Dec. 13, 1972, “we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.” It was a callback toContinue reading “Apollo 8’s moment of grace”
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