It been a while now since we last set foot on the moon. The whole
epsode of moon landings seems almost like a dream. The eager attempt
to get to lunar and the successful landings are beginning to fade into
history. It over 30 years since we last walked over those white powdery
surfaces. Apollo 17 landed on the moon on 11 December 1972 and returned
back to Earth on 19 December 1972. The mission personnel were Eugene
A. Cernan, commander,
Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar
module pilot. Many people around today weren't even born yet. I thought
it might be nice to review the events pictorically. These events are
not in any particular order.
1. Lunar Rover on Apollo 9
2. Apollo 9, Scott, Worden, Irwin
3. Moon walk, Apollo 9
4. Apollo 9 snapped this picture, what is it?
5. Apollo 15, a drive in the lunar
rover
6. An Oblique of the Crater Daedalus on the lunar farside
from Apollo 11 in lunar orbit.
7. Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo
16 lunar landing mission, collecting lunar samples near North Ray crater.
8. A close-up view of a block (about 1/2 meter long)
found by the two Moon-exploring crew members of the Apollo 16 lunar
landing mission.
9. Plum Crater, which was visited by
the two Moon-exploring crew members of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission,
April 21, 1972.
10. Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot,
collecting lunar samples at Plum Crater, Apollo 16 lunar landing mission.
11. Apollo 16 Earth Rise.
12. Desolate lunar scape showing scientist-astronaut
Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, working at the Lunar Roving
Vehicle, Apollo 17.
13. Charles Conrad Jr, Apollo 12, and
Surveyor at sloap of crater
14. Apollo 16 Astronauts Train for Lunar Landing Mission
15. The deployment of the flag of the United States on the Moon,
Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
16. The Lunar Roving Vehicle gets a speed
workout by astronaut John W. Young during the Apollo 16.
17. Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt standing
next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the Apollo 17.
18. Apollo 14 crewmen (note shadow) photographs this
field of boulders.
19. Astronaut Alan Shepard during Apollo 14
20. View of lunar surface from the inside of the
Apollo 14 Lunar Module.
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