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Ok, Let's Get This Mother Out Of Here.

The Moon Is Bland In Color. I Call It Shades Of Gray. You Know, The Only Color We See Is What We Bring Or The Earth, Which Is Looking Down Upon Us All The Time. And To Find Orange Soil On The Moon Was A Surprise.

Perhaps The Two Greatest Moments Of My Life Were Standing On The Moon And Being Outside Of The Room When My Granddaughter Was Born! We Tend Not To Remember The Worst.

As I Take Man's Last Step From The Surface, Back Home For Some Time To Come...i'd Like To Just (say) What I Believe History Will Record. That America's Challenge Of Today Has Forged Man's Destiny Of Tomorrow. As We Leave The Moon At Taurus- Littrow, We Leave As We Came And, God Willing, As We Shall Return, With Peace And Hope For All Mankind. "godspeed The Crew Of Apollo 17."

Another Hundred Years May Pass Before We Understand The True Significance Of Apollo. Lunar Exploration Was Not The Equivalent Of An American Pyramid, Some Idle Monument To Technology, But More Of A Rosetta Stone, A Key To Unlocking Dreams As Yet Undreamed.