The Last Moon Landing: Why Did We Stop Going To The Moon? | Apollo 17 | Spark

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  @blaviken7743 · 5 years ago

  I can clearly see these guys had the most fun on the moon.

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• DT

  @dtmjax5612 · 5 years ago

  I was living and growing up on the Space Coast during the Apollo program. An Air Force brat, my father was stationed at Patrick AFB just south of Cocoa Beach. I remember watching Apollo 11 lift off with my Mom standing in our front yard. A couple years later for 17 we had a car pass to get out on “Three Mile Road” to watch the night launch up close and personal. After several delays and us beginning to doubt it actually going up...they finally lit the candle just around midnight. The brilliance of that miniature sun that Saturn 5 emanated when it lit was phenomenal. Forever emblazoned in my minds eye. What an incredible few years to be a middle schooler growing up when and where I did.

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• KE

  @kenpea6220 · 5 years ago

  You know, I just watch this and realized that we don't do great things like this today! How sad it is that here we are Christmas Eve 2020 and not even come closed to even matching great things like we did then. We have prisoned ourselves, killed ourselves off for what, to get richer and fatter. We've let the great things slip through our fingers, what a shame! What a waste! What a shameful waste!

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• CH

  @charishhamilton7227 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Little did these astronauts know that the age of space exploration for our voyager probes and our discoveries of other solar systems and galaxies, the moon is what brought us humans out there into space and exploring our solar system, thank you moon for being our first world beyond our earth, and like what Neil Armstrong set, one small step for man, onegiant leap for man kind.🌌🌕👨‍🚀🌎<br><br>Edit: Yes, I liked my own comment

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• AN

  @andy1080snowboarding · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfQbs__kc5M&amp;t=1223">20:23</a> showing footage of Ron Evans in Mission Control when he’s actually orbiting the moon.

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• RE

  @RedShift112 · 5 years ago

  &apos;we&apos;re all just on a big spaceship and we&apos;d better get along&apos;

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• RI

  @richk322 · 5 years ago

  LETS NOT FORGET HOW SPECIAL EARTH IS AND HOW SPECIAL WE ARE.

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• SI

  @simonmoglie4518 · 4 years ago

  I remember as a nine year old looking up at the moon at Christmas 1968 and thinking there were men going round it at the time. Awe inspiring stuff indeed. Then, just a few months later I watched man walking on the moon and again looking up in wonder. When even as a kid I knew there would be no Apollo 18 I was devastated. I am lucky enough to have Frank bormans and Gene Cernan&apos;s actual written autographs one on a photo of Apollo 8 Saturn V and one By Gene on a framed poster on my living room wall of which I got just before he died. I never had the same interest in Skylab, the Shuttle or the ISS. They to me seemed so trivial in comparison to Apollo. I know how sad Gene was towards the end of his life, just as I am now. God bless you guys, all of you and Rest In Peace.

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• DQ

  @dq1275 · 5 years ago

  After Engle was bumped off The Apollo 17 crew, he got to pick his next mission and chose the shuttle, being a test pilot and having flown the X-15, it was his area of expertise.

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• BI

  @Birch37 · 5 years ago

  Its great that &apos;Robbie Williams&apos; took the time to provide commentary at the beginning of this documentary.

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• SA

  @samuelparker9882 · 5 years ago (edited)

  So true. These men are the MOST well traveled people on the moon. Stayed the longest, drove and walked the furthest. By far, they had THE COOLEST moon mission ... my bad... THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND COOLEST moon mission that has ever left the earth. 3 days on Luna and HOURS at a time just roaming around, coolin&apos; out on the surface of one of the most important gifts that the most HIGH gave to us.

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• SI

  @simonmoglie4518 · 4 years ago

  For anyone how has not seen it, I can highly recommend &apos;The last Man On The Moon&apos; about Gene Cernan and the end of Apollo. You won&apos;t regret seeing it.

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