Exactly 50 years ago today, NASA launched its final mission in the Apollo moon program. Now, the space agency seems finally poised to return people to the lunar surface.
On the final spacewalk ever, Harrison Schmitt was photographed standing next to a huge lunar boulder by his astronaut partner Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon.On the final spacewalk ever, Harrison Schmitt was photographed standing next to a huge lunar boulder by his astronaut partner Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon.Only a dozen people have ever walked on the moon.
Back in the 1960's and 1970's, she notes, the Apollo program didn't have a tremendous amount of public support. She says the Apollo program ended because politicians like President Richard Nixon were no longer willing to shoulder its high costs and the risks to astronauts, given that the Cold War's race to the moon had been won.
That hasn't been true for NASA's current moonshot, which the agency calls Artemis, after the mythical Apollo's twin sister.
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