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I'm Quite Disappointed That I'm Still The Last Man On The Moon.

After Apollo 17, America Stopped Looking Towards The Next Horizon. The United States Had Become A Space-faring Nation, But Threw It Away. We Have Sacrificed Space Exploration For Space Exploitation, Which Is Interesting But Scarcely Visionary.

Today, We Are On A Path Of Decay. We Are Seeing The Book Close On Five Decades Of Accomplishment As The Leader In Human Space Exploration.

When You Head On Out To The Moon, In Very Short Order, And You Get A Chance To Look Back At The Earth, That Horizon Slowly Curves Around In Upon Himself, And All Of Sudden You're Looking At Something That Is Very Strange, But Yet Is Very, Very Familiar, Because You're Beginning To See The Earth Evolve.

The Countdown Reached Ten Seconds And I Could Almost Hear An Invisible Crescendo Of Stirring Background Music. 'anchors Aweigh!' Five, Four, Three, Two, One... And We Had Ignition!