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In December 1972, before he climbed the ladder of the Apollo 17 lunar module for the last time, Gene Cernan knelt in the grey dust of the Taurus-Littrow valley and traced his daughter Tracy’s initials, TDC, into a surface with no wind or weather to erase them for millions of years

In December 1972, before he climbed the ladder of the Apollo 17 lunar module for the last time, Gene Cernan knelt in the grey dust of the Taurus-Littrow valley and traced his daughter Tracy’s initials, TDC, into a surface with no wind or weather to erase them for millions of years

In the last hour of the final Apollo mission, Gene Cernan traced his daughter Tracy's initials into the lunar dust — and on a world without weather, they may still be legible millions of years from now. The post In December 1972, before he climbed the ladder of the Apollo 17 lunar module for the last time, Gene Cernan knelt in the grey dust of the Taurus-Littrow valley and traced his daughter Tracy’s initials, TDC, into a surface with no wind or weather to erase them for millions of years appeared first on Space Daily .