Carolina QuotesBut of course the rover’s still there. Dead—battery dead. Experiments there. Power source gone. But unless a meteorite’s hit there, I—those old footprints are still there.
Charles Duke
Carolinian
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Oral history interview by Doug Ward, 12 March 1999; NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project
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