Back to the Moon

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard: Space geeks, New Scientst
“So what does excite you?
TH: I want to go back and relive the Apollo 17 mission, when Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan lived on the moon for three days. They drove an electric car and it was a flawless mission. As Schmitt was a geologist, they got so much good science done. Alas, it was the last Apollo mission. Neil and Buzz just walked around for an hour and a half, got back in and took a nap. That’s all they did. Don’t write that down [laughs] – I just saw Buzz two nights ago. I don’t want to rag on what they did. Here’s what they did: they proved it was possible. Neil and Buzz did not die and made it back safe. They cheated death!”