Did you feel the weight of responsibility during that last ever Apollo mission? You tested the lunar lander during Apollo 10, getting within 15km of the surface, and then in December 1972 you walked on the Moon. Simply because we can and that’s why we will. Is there water? Was there water? Could life exist? Maybe we’re going to go simply because it’s there. Now we’ve got to take advantage of the resources the Moon has to offer us here on this planet. What would be the point of returning to the Moon?Īll we’ve proved is we can work and survive up there. I do not want to remember those launch pads that sent us to the Moon the way they are today. It hurt me personally.Ĭonsidering where we were half a century ago when Americans were walking on the Moon – people still come up to me today and say it’s incredible – we’ve obliterated that piece of history. To think of what we were capable of doing and now we’ve been told that if we want to go to our own space station, we’d better get a trampoline – that statement hurt. Fortunately, I was one of the guys to go out there, to look back at the Earth and try to comprehend the meaning of it all. People had dreamed of leaving the cradle of civilisation – this Earth of ours – and we did it. We launched off that pad in a big Saturn V rocket that took us to the Moon. It’s over, you’re not going to go anywhere.” It was if someone took Columbus’ Santa Maria and said: “It’s history – you guys discovered America, let’s take it out and scuttle it. It was very nostalgic, disappointing, somewhat heart-breaking. What were you thinking when you walked around the rusting structure? However, it becomes apparent that the “last man on the Moon” is not happy about the way the American space programme has played out.įor the film you visited the abandoned Saturn V launch pad at Cape Canaveral – where you launched to go the Moon. In person, Capt Cernan is utterly charming and we chat for more than an hour over coffee about that final step, mortality, returning to the Moon and inspiring a new generation of space explorers. It includes Cernan’s ex-wife who coined the telling phrase: “If you think going to the Moon is hard, you should try staying at home.”
THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON MOVIE MOVIE
The movie is poignant, funny and reveals more about the men who went to the Moon than most other Apollo documentaries. Having seen an early cut, it is clear that this is no ego trip.
His latest venture is a documentary film about his life (watch the trailer here), although Cernan insists it is not a movie about him but the story of how an ordinary working class child can grow up to do extraordinary things.
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