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“I was over the moon!” laughs former NASA astronaut and moonwalker Charles Moss Duke when asked to recall his feelings on stepping on the lunar surface over 50 years ago during the Apollo 16 mission. As the youngest person to do so at 36 years on April 27, 1972, the legendary NASA astronaut says he still holds that record “though I wish someone had broken it by now”. One of

Charlie Duke, Lunar Module Pilot of the Apollo 16 mission, talks about his astronaut training, his memories of the Moon and his thoughts about the future of US space flight.

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