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Στις 19 Δεκεμβρίου 1972, όταν οι Γιουτζίν Σέρναν, Χάρισον Σμιτ και Ρόναλντ Εβανς επέστρεφαν από τη Σελήνη με τον «Απόλλωνα 17» η εποχή του Διαστήματος θεωρείτο ήδη θεμελιωμένη. Αλλοι πλανήτες μάς περίμεναν: πρώτα ρομποτικές αποστολές, μετά επανδρωμένες, έπειτα προσεδαφίσεις. Κανείς δεν περίμενε ότι σχεδόν μισό αιώνα μετά εκείνες ...

Explorer-In-Residence Jill Heinerth's newest book encourages kids to reach for the stars January 13, 2021 Sitting on the cold floor of our family room, the Zenith black and white television's static energy pulled my long, fine hair toward the screen. But it was the content of the programming that captivated my attention. Growing up in the 60s and 70s included shared media experiences. With only a couple of TV channels to choose from, we watched world events together, and those events shaped our lives. For three days in 1972, I remember watching Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Harrison Schmidt s...

Apollo 11 by remembering their epic voyage and telling their story. and the work they nobly advanced in american space exploration. apollo 11 was followed by 5 or successful moon missions, and aiding in the final historic journey of apollo 17. america's last trip to the moon. as we honor our apollo 11 astronauts we are also honored today to be joined by apollo 17 astronaut harrison schmitt. thank you for your courageous -- [applause]

Addition to the apollo mission. the lunar module was the module the challenger was one, could carry more payload. because of that we could take this lunar rover or moon buggy as you called it, to the moon and it did extend the exploration capability of the astronauts. we were outside the spacecraft for three different excursions for 22 hours, a little over 22 hours and most of that was actually using the lunar rover to move across this deep mountain valley in with i we landed and we traveled 35 kilometers on that. kristin: that's incredible. harrison schmidt, and leland and others at home goin...

Fill in the gaps for life to form. whether the new planets have been subjected to the kind of bombardment that the earth and moon were, we don't know yet. but the chance is that they were. >> neil: thanks, harrison. the second to last man to walk on the moon, the last man alive to walk on the moon with the passing of gene cernan a little over a month ago. back to earnly concerns, terrestrial concerns and the dustup to jewish cemeteries this week. this type of hatred has to stop. >> let me say, i just want to thank your new governor for bringing -- [applause] thank you governor. on behalf of th...