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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Demand for Europe space rethink In re-iterating comments he made earlier this year, Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees has called for Europe's space exploration effort to concentrate on robotic missions, and allow the US and Russia, with their greater financial resources, to get on with the business of sending humans into space.

How many readers know the first and last people to walk on the moon, and what the space program was called?  Don’t Google the answer; I’m going to give it to you:   Gene Cernan has the distinction of being the last human being to walk on the moon in 1972.