Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Less Poetic, Perhaps, but More Visceral

Quick quiz. What were the first words ever uttered on the moon by a human being? Kidding. Everyone knows that they were "That's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind." But what were the last words ever uttered on the moon? According to Thomas Mallon's not particularly favorable review of a new biography of Neil Armstrong in The New Yorker, they were said by Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan:

"Let's get this mutha outta here."

I love that.

Until Whenever

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