Charlie Duke

Well, thank you very much.

That was Apollo 16 with John Young.

We had a great time.

I think so.

Uh, certainly, uh, you know, after so long, it's, uh, good to go back.

Uh, the knowledge that we gained from the moon from Apollo has been extraordinary.

Uh, 600 pounds of moon rocks, uh, all experiments we left up there that have been operating, uh, they've operated for about four or five years.

And then NASA finally had so much data, they shut them off.

But, uh,

The evidence is overwhelming that we really did land on the moon.

And so I think going back again, eventually land, like this time on the South Pole, will be extraordinarily beneficial for us to see the terrain down there and the possibility of liquid of some sort down on the South Pole region.

Well, it, uh, we, uh, years ago we sent a satellite, uh, into, uh, crashed into the moon and it was followed by another one that, uh, that took, uh, some sort of, uh, experimental, uh, package.

And, uh, the debris that came out was analyzed and it was, uh, uh, looked like water vapor, I guess, to them.

And so the, uh,

the supposition is if there is water on the moon, it's at the South pole frozen as ice.

So we're going to go down and see, uh, eventually and land down there.

Well, yeah, that's, uh, to build a moon base is, uh, I think one of the, uh,

uh, plans, uh, in the future that, uh, and probably down there at the South pole, uh, uh, sun angle is, uh, uh, low, uh, most of the time about two, two degrees above the horizon.

So, uh, you, uh, uh, you get deep shadows, but you get real bright sunlight as a, as a moon turns around, uh, once every 28 days.

So,