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a17_v_c_o_AKP (AS17-134-20384)*

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface Extravehicular Activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background. This picture was taken by Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander. While Astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, Command Module Pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

 

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Uploaded on February 15, 2017