New Plan for NASA Aims Beyond the Moon
27 April 2010
The International Space Station as seen by the space shuttle crew during one of the program's last missions earlier this month
BARBARA KLEIN: I’m Barbara Klein.
STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week on our program, we tell you about the new goals that President Obama is proposing for the space agency NASA. The plans include a decision earlier this year to cancel a program to return to the moon.
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BARBARA KLEIN: But before we hear about the new direction for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, we take a look back.
HARRISON SCHMITT: "Okay. I'm going to get the pro. Ninety-nine. Proceeded three, two, one ... "
HARRISON SCHMITT: "Ignition."
EURGENE CERNAN: "We're on our way, Houston!"
HARRISON SCHMITT: "Rates are good. AGS saw it ... "
Those were the voices of Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan, astronauts on the flight of Apollo Seventeen. They had spent three days on the moon. Now they were on their way home. The date was December fourteenth, nineteen seventy-two.
nasa.govHarrison Schmitt took this photo of Eugene Cernan. The two were the last astronauts on the moon
In the close to forty years since, no one has set foot on the moon. Back then, there was much hope that humans would return soon and make a home on Earth’s only natural satellite.
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