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This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, as they traveled toward the moon on their lunar landing mission. For the first time, the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap, shown here along with heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Apollo 17 crew consisted of astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander; Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the lunar module to explore the moon, astronaut Evans remained with the command and service modules in lunar orbit.
Image credit: NASA
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I was trawling through some old pics and came across this one of the moon, taken in 2014. It was taken with a Canon 5D Mk3 (Full frame) camera and a Sigma 300-800mm lens in my back garden.
1/125th Sec at f20 -2/3 EV ISO 1000.
The original images of the Apollo missions were blurry and overexposed. A new book is coming out next month called Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Journey, amzn.to/3D0cRKf. It reveals hundreds of newly-restored images from the NASA archives that provide a unique perspective on the Apollo missions. The images were rescanned and remastered by Andy Saunders. The remastered have a much better quality compared to the ones published originally.
I took one remastered image from bit.ly/3iYItIl, and HDR-processed it to further enhance the texture, and to bring out more details. It shows Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger that was about to dock to the orbiting command module after a successful mission to the surface of the moon. Behind the triangular window you can see Commander Eugene Cernan. You can compare the original image, the remastered image, and this HDR processed image on Facebook at bit.ly/3z52IJN.
I processed a balanced and a realistic HDR photo from a JPG exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- HDR, 1 JPG exposure, AS17-149-22859-2v2SmlWmk-qhdr1_hdr1bal1rea1g.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Last week my son and I went to video-tape the private space collection of Steve Jurvetson at Future Ventures, bit.ly/3wt0MtW. I took some photos after the video session.
This instrument was made for the traverse gravimeter experiment (TGE) of the Apollo 17 mission. It was mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and measured the relative gravity at a number of places around landing area. The photo shows the center piece that measured the gravity on the moon very accurately. The instrument is gold-plated. See more info on the gold-plated instrument at go.nasa.gov/3dygqeO. See more photos on the Quality HDR Photography FB page at bit.ly/3rN9vDG.
I processed a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/4.0, 50 mm, 1/30 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-50F18, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC7405_hdr1rea1b.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Today in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first humans to drive a car on the lunar surface, the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The lightweight, electric car greatly increased the range of mobility and productivity on the scientific traverses for astronauts. The LRV weighed 462 pounds (77 pounds on the Moon) and could carry two suited astronauts, their gear and cameras, and several hundred pounds of bagged lunar samples. The LRV was designed and developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing. Here, David Scott waits in the LRV for the return trip to the Lunar Module, Falcon, with rocks and soil collected near the Hadley-Apennine landing site. Today, Marshall is playing a vital role in the Artemis program by developing the Space Launch System, the backbone of NASA's exploration plans and the only rocket capable of sending humans to the Moon and Mars. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA's remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA's activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA's history, visit the Marshall History Program's webpage.
Image credit: NASA
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This week in 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the lunar surface and became the third and final mission to employ the Lunar Roving Vehicle -– a lightweight, electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon. It allowed Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their moonwalks. Here, astronaut Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part of the first Apollo 17 moonwalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Today, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is playing a vital role in the Artemis program by developing the Space Launch System, the backbone of NASA’s exploration plans and the only rocket capable of sending humans to the Moon and Mars. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
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“LRV-2 Deploy from LM Simulator using FLT no. 3 SSE. REF. no. Boeing 1-4081.”
What’s SSE you ask? Even if you didn’t:
“1.9. SPACE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT (SSE)
The Space Support Equipment (SSE) consists of two basic subsystems of hardware, the structural support subsystem and the deployment hardware subsystem. The function of the structural support subsystem is to structurally support the LRV in the LM during launch boost, earth-lunar transit and landing. The function of the deployment hardware subsystems is to deploy the LRV from the LM to the lunar surface after landing.”
Above per/at:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LRV_OpsNAS8-25145Pt1.pdf
Credit: ALSJ website
And, based on the above, one can deduce that - despite being MSFC issued - the photograph was taken at the Boeing Company’s Kent, WA facility, prior to shipment to KSC. That’s the only place the SSE associated with “FLT no. 3”, aka LRV-3/Apollo 17, would be “externally/pre-installation” available
Also, check out the deformed front left wheel…damn…along with the cool shadow cast by the left rear wheel on the wall/partition. A great visual demonstrating its ingenious “transparent” mesh design. Finally, the sequence of previous? LRV deployment photos posted, visible on the far left. Now, if I could only identify the Great American in the image.
I adore lunar imagery, and have a considerable archive of mission data/imagery, from ESA, JAXA, NASA, et al. Although I do have an affinity for all of it , really, I am particularly fond of the US and the Soviet space agencies' historical/legacy data (as a kid growing up in the NASA/Houston suburbs, I had the privilege of spending an evening with visiting Cosmonauts, and carried souvenirs of their space program kindly gifted years ago as good luck charms, so to speak, on my recent birthday! From the tragedy of Apollo 1, to the triumphant exit and ambitious Apollo 17 missions, the program seemed to be one superhuman act of engineering brilliance on top of almost unthinkable acts of bravery, on a repetitious cycle, as in those years, we were doing something so dramatic and amazing as to be literally unbelievable (Buzz actually punched a guy who accused him of faking the entire thing! As a student of martial arts, I learned quite early when to and when not to engage, but after such harassment, I can understand Dr. Aldrin's significant frustration! ;-) Ok. This is a relatively low-fi reproduction of one of the many images -- extraordinary material -- but on a whim, discovering it earlier today, I simply had to post! Cheers, guys! You're my heroes. Skäl.
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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt poses on the Lunar surface next to an American flag during Apollo 17. Snapped during the first EVA of the mission the photo captures the Earth in the background and Eugene Cernan in the reflection of Schmitt's visor.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS17-134-20384
Date: December 11, 1972
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is pictured inside the lunar module following the third session of extravehicular activity on the 20th century's last lunar landing mission. The helmets in the picture are actually from another frame of 70mm still photography, which was later stitched to the frame of the commander's image.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: JSC2006-E-47269
Date: December 14, 1972
The first (Neil Armstrong) and the last (Eugene Cernan) man on the moon in one shot. Well, not actually the men themselves, but the respective landing sites of Apollo 11 and 17. Image taken with a Mak180/2.700mm & ASI178mc.
Digital Accession Number: 1992:0007:0002.0001
Maker: NASA
Title: Astronaut James Irwin gives salute beside U.S. flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA)
Date: August 1, 1971
Medium: color print, chromogenic development (Ektacolor) process
Dimensions: Image: 26.5 x 34.2 cm . Overall: 27.6 x 35.6 cm
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Nikkormat FTn w/Vivitar 85-205mm f 3.8 Zoom w/2x teleconverter.
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Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command module.
Mission planners had two primary goals in deciding on the landing site: to sample lunar highland material older than that at Mare Imbrium and to investigate the possibility of relatively recent volcanic activity. They therefore selected Taurus–Littrow, where formations that had been viewed and pictured from orbit were thought to be volcanic in nature. Since all three crew members had backed up previous Apollo lunar missions, they were familiar with the Apollo spacecraft and had more time for geology training.
Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, following the only launch-pad delay in the course of the whole Apollo program that was caused by a hardware problem, Apollo 17 was a "J-type" mission that included three days on the lunar surface, expanded scientific capability, and the use of the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Cernan and Schmitt landed in the Taurus–Littrow valley, completed three moonwalks, took lunar samples and deployed scientific instruments. Orange soil was discovered at Shorty crater; it proved to be volcanic in origin, although from early in the Moon's history. Evans remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), taking scientific measurements and photographs. The spacecraft returned to Earth on December 19.
The mission broke several records for crewed spaceflight, including the longest crewed lunar landing mission (12 days, 14 hours),[7] greatest distance from a spacecraft during an extravehicular activity of any type (7.6 kilometers or 4.7 miles), longest time on the lunar surface (75 hours), longest total duration of lunar-surface extravehicular activities (22 hours, 4 minutes),[8] largest lunar-sample return (approximately 115 kg or 254 lb), longest time in lunar orbit (6 days, 4 hours),[7] and greatest number of lunar orbits (75).[9]
Crew and key Mission Control personnel
Position[10] Astronaut
Commander Eugene A. Cernan
Third and last spaceflight
Command Module Pilot (CMP) Ronald E. Evans
Only spaceflight
Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. Schmitt
Only spaceflight
In 1969, NASA announced[11] that the backup crew of Apollo 14 would be Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and former X-15 pilot Joe Engle.[12][13] This put them in line to be the prime crew of Apollo 17, because the Apollo program's crew rotation generally meant that a backup crew would fly as prime crew three missions later. Harrison Schmitt, who was a professional geologist as well as an astronaut, had served on the backup crew of Apollo 15, and thus, because of the rotation, would have been due to fly as lunar module pilot on Apollo 18.[14]
In September 1970, the plan to launch Apollo 18 was cancelled. The scientific community pressed NASA to assign a geologist, rather than a pilot with non-professional geological training, to an Apollo landing. NASA subsequently assigned Schmitt to Apollo 17 as the lunar module pilot. After that, NASA's director of flight crew operations, Deke Slayton, was left with the question of who would fill the two other Apollo 17 slots: the rest of the Apollo 15 backup crew (Dick Gordon and Vance Brand), or Cernan and Evans from the Apollo 14 backup crew. Slayton ultimately chose Cernan and Evans.[11] Support at NASA for assigning Cernan was not unanimous. Cernan had crashed a Bell 47G helicopter into the Indian River near Cape Kennedy during a training exercise in January 1971; the accident was later attributed to pilot error, as Cernan had misjudged his altitude before crashing into the water. Jim McDivitt, who was manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office at the time, objected to Cernan's selection because of this accident, but Slayton dismissed the concern. After Cernan was offered command of the mission, he advocated for Engle to fly with him on the mission, but it was made clear to him that Schmitt would be assigned instead, with or without Cernan, so he acquiesced.[15][16] The prime crew of Apollo 17 was publicly announced on August 13, 1971.[17]
When assigned to Apollo 17, Cernan was a 38-year-old captain in the United States Navy; he had been selected in the third group of astronauts in 1963, and flown as pilot of Gemini 9A in 1966 and as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in 1969 before he served on Apollo 14's backup crew. Evans, 39 years old when assigned to Apollo 17, had been selected as part of the fifth group of astronauts in 1966, and had been a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. Schmitt, a civilian, was 37 years old when assigned Apollo 17, had a doctorate in geology from Harvard University, and had been selected in the fourth group of astronauts in 1965. Both Evans and Schmitt were making their first spaceflights.[18]
For the backup crews of Apollo 16 and 17, the final Apollo lunar missions, NASA selected astronauts who had already flown Apollo lunar missions, to take advantage of their experience, and avoid investing time and money in training rookies who would be unlikely to ever fly an Apollo mission.[19][20] The original backup crew for Apollo 17, announced at the same time as the prime crew,[17] was the crew of Apollo 15: David Scott as commander, Alfred Worden as CMP and James Irwin as LMP, but in May 1972 they were removed from the backup crew because of their roles in the Apollo 15 postal covers incident.[21] They were replaced with the landing crew of Apollo 16: John W. Young as backup crew commander, Charles Duke as LMP, and Apollo 14's CMP, Stuart Roosa.[18][22][23] Originally, Apollo 16's CMP, Ken Mattingly, was to be assigned along with his crewmates, but he declined so he could spend more time with his family, his son having just been born, and instead took an assignment to the Space Shuttle program.[24] Roosa had also served as backup CMP for Apollo 16.[25]
For the Apollo program, in addition to the prime and backup crews that had been used in the Mercury and Gemini programs, NASA assigned a third crew of astronauts, known as the support crew. Their role was to provide any assistance in preparing for the missions that the missions director assigned then. Preparations took place in meetings at facilities across the US and sometimes needed a member of the flight crew to attend them. Because McDivitt was concerned that problems could be created if a prime or backup crew member was unable to attend a meeting, Slayton created the support crews to ensure that someone would be able to attend in their stead.[26] Usually low in seniority, they also assembled the mission's rules, flight plan and checklists, and kept them updated;[27][28] for Apollo 17, they were Robert F. Overmyer, Robert A. Parker and C. Gordon Fullerton.[29]
Flight directors were Gerry Griffin, first shift, Gene Kranz and Neil B. Hutchinson, second shift, and Pete Frank and Charles R. Lewis, third shift.[30] According to Kranz, flight directors during the program Apollo had a one-sentence job description, "The flight director may take any actions necessary for crew safety and mission success."[31] Capsule communicators (CAPCOMs) were Fullerton, Parker, Young, Duke, Mattingly, Roosa, Alan Shepard and Joseph P. Allen.[32]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: NWDNS-412-DA-11344
From: Series: DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, compiled 1972-1977 (Record Group 412)
Created by: Environmental Protection Agency. (12/02/1970 - )
Production Date: 12/1972
Photographer: NASA 1
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Something from the archives. This has been on my ”Projects” folder for three years now. There was always something missing from it and I couldn’t figure out what it was until yesterday. I had tried to make it a regular photograph without the original negative borders and the crosshairs. I think it all needs to be there.
Those Apollo mission photographs are astonishing btw. I mean seriously, if you really look at them they are just crazy cool!
These photographs were taken at Taurus-Littow landing site on the Moon by Gene Cernan on December 13, 1972 and they are from this Flickr album by Apollo Image Gallery. I have edited them in terms of colour and contrast – and the Eagle.
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" A thumbnail sketch a jeweler's stone
A mean idea to call my own
Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young
There's time to teach point to point
Point observation children carry reservations
Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold leaves me cold.
A mean idea to call my own a hundred million birds fly
Singer sing me a given singer sing me a song
Standing on the shoulders of giants everybody's looking on
(Old man don't lay so still you're not yet young,
There's time to teach, point to point,
Point observation, children carry reservations).
Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold
A mean idea to call my own,
A hundred million birds fly away, away.
I am… "
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Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan (left) and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt are photographed by the third crew man aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, took this picture. Cernan was the mission commander. Schmitt served as the lunar module pilot.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS17-163-24148
Date: December 17, 1972
Almost 50 years ago ….
APOLLO 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 9:32 am (13:32 UTC) and was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program.
Thia was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon:Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first human to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.
APOLLO 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt
Evans remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module, but Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon, (three moonwalks, taking lunar samples, deploying scientific instruments).
This 12-day-mission broke several records:
- longest moon landing, longest moonwalks, largest lunar sample, longest time in lunar orbit
Cernan (last man on moon) , Evans and Schmitt returned to Earth on December 19 , 1972
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Panorama view of Apollo 17 lunar surface photos for Station 1 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site taken during the first moonwalk of the mission by Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan and lunar module pilot Harrison (Jack) Schmitt. Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt is holding the rake and the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) can be seen on the left side of the image. The panorama was built by combining Apollo 17 images starting with frame AS17-134-20408 through end frame AS17-134-20431. The panoramic images received minimal retouching by NASA imagery specialists, including the removal of lens flares that were problematic in stitching together the individual frames and blacking out the sky to the lunar horizon. These adjustments were made based on observations of the Moon walkers who reported that there are no stars visible in the sky due to the bright lunar surface reflection of the Sun.
Credit: NASA
Image Numbers: AS17-134-20408 to -20431
Date: December 11, 1972
The prime crew for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission are: Commander, Eugene A. Cernan (seated), Command Module pilot Ronald E. Evans (standing on right), and Lunar Module pilot, Harrison H. Schmitt. They are photographed with a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) trainer. Cernan and Schmitt will use an LRV during their exploration of the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon rocket is in the background. This picture was taken at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, The Apollo 17 emblem is in the photo insert at upper left. The insignia, designed by artist Robert T. McCall in collaboration with the crewmen, is dominated by the image of Apollo, the Greek sun god. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-50438
Date: September 30, 1971
Apollo 17 mission commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, looks skyward during a memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, September 13, 2012. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, August 25, 2012. He was 82.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Number: 201209130003HQ
Date: September 13, 2012
The Moon (or Luna) is the Earth’s only natural satellite and was formed 4.6 billion years ago around some 30–50 million years after the formation of the solar system. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The first unmanned mission to the Moon was in 1959 by the Soviet Lunar Program with the first manned landing being Apollo 11 in 1969.
The dark side of the moon is a myth.
In reality both sides of the Moon see the same amount of sunlight however only one face of the Moon is ever seen from Earth. This is because the Moon rotates around on its own axis in exactly the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The side facing away from Earth has only been seen by the human eye from spacecraft.
The rise and fall of the tides on Earth is caused by the Moon.
There are two bulges in the Earth due to the gravitational pull that the Moon exerts; one on the side facing the Moon, and the other on the opposite side that faces away from the Moon, The bulges move around the oceans as the Earth rotates, causing high and low tides around the globe. The first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969 was Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission, while the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission. Since then the Moon has only be visited by unmanned vehicles. At 3,475 km in diameter, the Moon is much smaller than the major moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Earth is about 80 times the volume than the Moon, but both are about the same age. A prevailing theory is that the Moon was once part of the Earth, and was formed from a chunk that broke away due to a huge object colliding with Earth when it was relatively young. NASA plans to return astronauts to the moon to set up a permanent space station. Mankind may once again walk on the moon in 2019, if all goes according to plan.
APOLLO 17 ASTRONAUT WITH AMERICAN FLAThe voyage of Apollo 17 marked the program’s concluding expedition to the moon. The mission lifted off after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972 from Kennedy Space Center and touched down on the lunar surface on Dec. 11. The crew spent almost 75 hours on the lunar surface, conducted nearly 22 hours of extravehicular activities (EVAs), and traveled almost 19 miles in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). During lunar lift-off on Dec. 14, Apollo 17 Mission Commander Eugene A. Cernan remarked that the astronauts were leaving as they came, “with peace and hope for all mankind.” In this photo, taken during the second EVA on Dec. 12, 1972, Cernan is standing near the lunar rover designed by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Original image: www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/gallery/41st_annive...
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Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 lunar overshoes on display in the Destination Moon exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC.
Gene Cernan was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission that landed on the moon on December 10, 1972.
The Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) "America," with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, splashes down into the South Pacific Ocean after successfully concluding the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. This overhead view was taken from a recovery aircraft as the spacecraft hit the water. Splashdown occurred at 304:31:59 ground elapsed time, 2:24:59 p.m. (EST) December 19, 1972, at coordinates of 166 degrees 8 minutes west longitude and 27 degrees 53 minutes south latitude, about 350 nautical miles southeast of Samoa. The splashdown was only .8 miles from the target point. The three crewmen were picked up by a helicopter from the prime recovery ship, USS Ticonderoga.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-55837
Date: December 19, 1972
Digital Accession Number: 1992:0007:0001.0001
Maker: NASA
Title: Schmitt with Flag and Earth Above
Date: December 13, 1972
Medium: color print, chromogenic development (Ektacolor) process
Dimensions: Image: 26.5 x 34.2 cm . Overall: 27.6 x 35.6 cm
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View of the crescent Earth rising above the lunar horizon over the Ritz Crater. Image taken during the Apollo 17 mission on Revolution 66. Original film magazine was labeled PP. Film type was SO-368 Color Ektachrome MS CEX,Color Reversal, 250mm lens., Longitude 98.2 East, Azimuth 264, Altitude 113 km.
NASA Identifier: as17-152-23274
Digital Accession Number: 1992:0007:0010.0001
Maker: NASA
Title: Lunar Activities During the Apollo 15 Mission
Date: July/August 1971
Medium: color print, chromogenic development (Ektacolor) process
Dimensions: Image: 26.5 x 34.2 cm . Overall: 27.6 x 35.6 cm
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Description: What would it be like to explore the surface of another world? In 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission, astronaut Harrison Schmitt found out first hand. In this case, the world was Earth's own Moon. In this recently compiled panorama of lunar photographs originally taken by astronaut Eugene Cernan, the magnificent desolation of the barren Moon is apparent. Visible above and by scrolling right are lunar rocks in the foreground, lunar mountains in the background, some small craters, a lunar rover, and astronaut Schmidt on his way back to the rover. A few days after this image was taken, humanity left the Moon and has yet to return.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS17-145-22159 to AS17-145-22176
Date: December 13, 1972
In a desperate attempt to free the lovely Moon Girl (bit.ly/q7dSVJ) in 'Lonely Heartbeat'. Set on the moon during the 1972 Apollo 17 Moon Landing.
AS17-146-22294 (13 December 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed working beside a huge boulder at Station 6 (base of North Massif) during the third Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The front portion of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is visible on the left. This picture was taken by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander. Schmitt is the lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar-orbit.
NASA Identifier: HSF-photo-as17-146-22294
Gene Cernan, mission Commander, photographed by Harrison Schmitt, LM Pilot, Dec 12 1972
Stitching & colorizing of AS17-136-20755 to AS17-136-20765, Apollo17 Magazine 136/H
Credits : NASA/JSC/Laurent Saulnier
Eugene A. Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17 salutes the flag on the lunar surface during extravehicular activity (EVA) on NASA's final lunar landing mission. The Lunar Module "Challenger" is in the left background behind the flag and the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) also in background behind him. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Challenger to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the Moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, Command Module pilot, remained with the Command/Service Module (CSM) "America" in lunar-orbit.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS17-134-20380
Date: December 11, 1972
Scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, uses an adjustable sampling scoop to retrieve lunar samples during the second Apollo 17 Eextravehicular Activity EVA 2, at Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. A gnomon is atop the large rock in the foreground. Image taken by Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan. Station 5, Sample 5060,5075,5080 taken during EVA 2 of the Apollo 17 mission. Original film magazine was labeled D film type was SO-368 Color Exterior CEX, Ektachrome MS, color reversal, 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 28 degrees.
NASA Identifier: as17-145-22157
An excellent view of the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules (CSM) photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" during rendezvous and docking maneuvers in lunar orbit. The LM ascent stage, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard, had just returned from the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the lunar surface. Astronaut Ronald E. Evans remained with the CSM in lunar orbit. Note the exposed Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) Bay in Sector 1 of the Service Module (SM). Three experiments are carried in the SIM bay: S-209 lunar sounder, S-171 infrared scanning spectrometer, and the S-169 far-ultraviolet spectrometer. Also mounted in the SIM bay are the panoramic camera, mapping camera and laser altimeter used in service module photographic tasks. A portion of the LM is on the right.
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Image Number: AS17-145-2257
Date: December 14, 1972
A close-up view of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site photographed during Apollo 17 lunar surface extravehicular activity. Note the makeshift repair arrangement on the right rear fender of the LRV. During EVA-1 a hammer got underneath the fender and a part of it was knocked off. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt were reporting a problem with lunar dust because of the damage fender. Following a suggestion from astronaut John W. Young in the Mission Control Center at Houston the crewmen repaired the fender early in EVA-2 using lunar maps and clamps from the optical alignment telescope lamp. Schmitt is seated in the rover. Cernan took this picture.
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Image Number: AS17-137-20979
Date: December 12, 1972
This view shows the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR), flight director's console, during the Apollo 17 launch. This photograph shows Neil Hutchinson, Eugene Kranz and Gerald Griffin in the MOCR, Building 30, Mission Control Center (MCC).
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Image Number: S72-54881
Date: December 6, 1972