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starship-design: Last lunar words



Everyone know what were first words spoken by the first man on the moon
were, but very few people know the last ones. They were uttered by Apollo
17 commander Eugene Cernan who didn't know at the time that the December
1972 mission would be NASA's final Apollo flight. After getting clearance
from Mission Control to leave the lunar surface, Cernan turned to his
co-pilot, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and said, "OK, let's get this mother out
of here."
-- Max Ary, Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center