Charlie duke is flying the Atlantic promoting Omega watches, Gene Cernan's smiling at book signings and Ed Mitchell's developed his own meditation technique. Charlie who? It's remarkable that most of the Moonwalkers—12 men who went through perhaps the most extraordinary human experience of the millennium— have become largely anonymous. And this despite the best efforts of PR merchants and publishers to cash in on their lunar credentials. Duke is no exception. In 1972, as the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, he became the tenth man to walk on the Moon. "Of course I would rather have been first," he now says, speaking from his Houston home. But being tenth is certainly better than not going at all."
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