Charles Duke is one of only twelve human beings who have walked on the moon—and for forty years, he said nothing about what he actually found there.
It wasn’t because he forgot or because it didn’t matter. It was because what he saw, what he reported, and what NASA did with that report was something no one was supposed to talk about. He is 89 now. His career is behind him, and his reputation is secured. Now, what he is saying about the Apollo missions—quietly, in interviews, with the calm certainty of a man who has nothing left to lose—is the most eye-opening testimony to come out of the space program in fifty years.
