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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 00:04:21 JST Wonder of Science

Apollo 17 lifts off from the Moon on December 14, 1972, the last time humans visited the lunar surface and traveled beyond Earth's orbit.
Further reading: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/leaving-moon-watching-home
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1. Leaving the Moon, Watching at Home
  
  After pressing some buttons to start up the ascent engine of their lunar module Challenger, astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the Moon on December 14, 1972. That’s 39 years ago – before many of us were even born. While these men looked out the tiny triangular windows of the lunar module to see the lunar surface getting farther away, viewers around the world watched that same spacecraft leave the Moon, live and in color on their television sets.
2. Video from the Moon's surface shows the boxy ascent stage of Apollo's Lunar Module detaching from its spidery descent counterpart and swiftly rising into the black daytime sky.
- Steve Vaughan (steve_vaughan@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 08:15:14 JST Steve Vaughan
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  @wonderofscience I always ask myself - who's filming that?
  
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- Ostfriesin (ostfriesin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 08:41:56 JST Ostfriesin
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  @wonderofscience
  Why hasn't anybody visited the moon for more than 50 yrs?
  
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- Blinxeto (blinxeto@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 04:32:09 JST Blinxeto
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  @wonderofscience
  I have always loved this video. Wow!
  
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