Looking Back At Apollo 17, and Why We Stopped Going To the Moon (examiner.com)

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @04:30AM from the they-were-out-of-coffee dept.

MarkWhittington writes: The 43rd anniversary of the mission of Apollo 17, the last time men walked on the moon, has elicited a strange kind of nostalgia, and no little melancholia in some parts of the media. These qualities are captured in a story in IO9 that purports to tell us why no one has been back to the moon in over four decades and why we might soon return at last. Deadline Hollywood informs us that "The Last Man on the Moon," a documentary on Apollo moonwalker Gene Cernan, is set for a release to both theaters and video on demand in February, having been shown at film festivals for the past year or so,

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Moooooon is for Cows. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-13 04:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You are all cows, living on the back side of the moooooon. You are a secret organisation, preventing pesky humans with their pesky rockets to come to Mooooooon and slaughter all COWS!!! Cows say moooo. Moooo! Moooo! Moooooo say the Cows. YOU UNDISCOVERED COWS!!!