We Don't Have The Capability Today To

We Will Certainly See Teachers, Journalists, Artists And Poets In Space. Whatever It Takes To The Be The Best Is What It Will Take To Get You Into Space.

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.

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

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."

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.