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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.
Photo: Universal (Getty Images) Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Voyagers now in theaters and Stowaway on Netflix next week, we’re looking to the stars for five days of space movies. Advertisement Apollo 13 (1995) Imagine hopping into a time machine, traveling back to mid-July of 1969, stopping by NASA, and telling folks there that half a century later, there still won’t be a big-budget Hollywood movie about humanity first setting foot on the moon (only a TV mi...