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[b]Taking A Piece of Apollo Back to the Moon[/b] Lending themselves to lunar exploration once more, eleven of the surviving Apollo astronauts have bestowed their names to a plaque that will be carried to the surface of the Moon by each Google Lunar X PRIZE spacecraft. The plaque, whose exact format is [to be decided] at this time, will read: "We Apollo Astronauts congratulate the winner of the Google Lunar X PRIZE. May this plaque, placed on the surface of the Moon by this intrepid craft and its team, serve as a welcoming beacon to future generations of lunar explorers. This spacecraft returns in the spirit of our journeys of the 20th Century - in peace and with hope for all humankind." [list][*]Col R. Walter Cunningham, USMCR, (Ret.), Apollo 7 [*]CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN (Ret.), Apollo 8, Apollo 13 [*]BrigGen James A. McDivitt, USAF, Ret., Apollo 9 [*]Russell L. Schweickart, Apollo 9 [*]CAPT Eugene A. Cernan, USN (Ret.), Apollo 10, Apollo 17 [*]Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 [*]CAPT Alan L. Bean, USN (Ret.), Apollo 12 [*]CAPT Edgar D. Mitchell, USN (Ret.), Apollo 14 [*]LtCol Alfred M. Worden, USAF, Ret., Apollo 15 [*]BrigGen Charles M. Duke, Jr., USAF, Ret., Apollo 16 [*]Hon. Harrison H. Schmitt, Ph.D., Apollo 17[/list]
"We Apollo Astronauts congratulate the winner of the Google Lunar X PRIZE. May this plaque, placed on the surface of the Moon by this intrepid craft and its team, serve as a welcoming beacon to future generations of lunar explorers. This spacecraft returns in the spirit of our journeys of the 20th Century - in peace and with hope for all humankind."
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