DUKE, Charlie [John F. Kennedy].
Charlie Duke Signed John F. Kennedy Photograph.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard": Rare John F. Kennedy Photograph lengthily signed by Moonwalker Charlie Duke
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Item Number: RRB-148673
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Oversized photograph of President John F. Kennedy delivering his famous speech on September 12, 1962, about landing on the moon before 1970. Boldly signed by astronaut Charlie Duke in silver felt tip with a lengthy inscription from Kennedy's speech that reads in full, "'We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.' John F. Kennedy Charlie Duke Apollo 16 Moon Walker." In fine condition. Triple matted and framed.
As Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, Charles Duke became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days. In April 1966, Duke was one of nineteen men selected for NASA's fifth group of astronauts. In 1969, he was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10. He served as CAPCOM for Apollo 11, the first crewed landing on the Moon. His distinctive Southern drawl became familiar to audiences around the world, as the voice of a Mission Control made nervous by a long landing that almost expended all of the Lunar Module Eagle descent stage's propellant. Duke's first words to the Apollo 11 crew on the surface of the Moon were flustered, "Roger, Twank...Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!"
Charlie Duke Signed John F. Kennedy Photograph.
$5,000.00
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