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Orion spacecraft is built to take humans farther than they have ever gone before, with its first test flight scheduled to launch on December 4th. Courtesy NASA. <\/p>\n
Washington: As the last man to walk on the Moon prepared to fly back to Earth in 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan echoed the words of the first, pledging with Neil-Armstrong-like grandiosity that \"we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind\". He later predicted that humans would reach Mars by the end of the 20th century. <\/p>\n
Now Cernan admits: \"I was a little off on my timing.\" <\/p>\n
Forty-two years after Cernan's Apollo 17 mission touched down, not a single person has walked on the Moon. A Mars landing is surely decades away, at best. And not a single space ship designed to carry astronauts has left low Earth orbit. <\/p>\n
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