Apollo 17 marks 50 years since moon landing
STORY: It's been 50 years since
Apollo 17 landed on the moon
No one has been back since
The Saturn V rocket blasted off
at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
33 minutes past midnight
on December 7, 1972
Apollo 17 crew members were the last of
12 NASA astronauts who walked on the moon
during a total of six Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972
(Eugene “Gene” Cernan, Apollo 17 Captain)
"There are no small people in this program, there are no small people on Apollo 17. It made any difference whether you swept out the white room or whether you passed coffee at MCC or whether you kept the sharks away during recovery. Everybody on this flight was a big man. There are no little guys and if I can borrow just a quick phrase, or a quick word that I read yesterday, that our President used, in terms of words of Sir Isaac Newton, we stood on the shoulders of giants."
