The Last Landing

I wonder which is more strange; that today, December 19, it’s been 34 years since man was last on the moon…

…or that so few people remember the mission – Apollo 17 – that flew it:

Crew members were Eugene Cernan, commander; Ron Evans, command module pilot; and Harrison Schmitt, lunar module pilot.

The landing site for this mission was on the southeastern rim of the Mare Serenitatis, in the southwestern Montes Taurus. This was a dark mantle between three high, steep massifs, in an area known as the Taurus-Littrow region. Pre-mission photographs showed boulders deposited along the bases of the mountains, which could provide bedrock samples. The area also contained a landslide, several impact craters, and some dark craters which could be volcanic.

It seems strange to me that nobody on our society under the age of probably 37-38 could actually remember man on the moon.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.