On 14 December 1972, near the end of the final moonwalk of the Apollo programme, the commander of Apollo 17, Gene Cernan, knelt on the surface and traced three letters into the lunar dust with one finger. The letters were TDC, the initials of his daughter, Teresa Dawn Cernan, known as Tracy, who was nine [...] The post Before he climbed the ladder for the last time, the final astronaut to walk on the Moon knelt and traced his daughter’s initials into the lunar dust with one finger — three letters that, with no wind or rain to disturb them, may sit there undisturbed for fifty thousand years. appeared first on Space Daily .
Before he climbed the ladder for the last time, the final astronaut to walk on the Moon knelt and traced his daughter’s initials into the lunar dust with one finger — three letters that, with no wind or rain to disturb them, may sit there undisturbed for fifty thousand years.
