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Related: About this forumToday is The Fortieth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk
Last edited Thu Dec 13, 2012, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)
The Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk
On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. Jack Schmitt made the final lunar EVA or moonwalk of the final Apollo mission. Theirs was the longest stay on the Moon at just over three days and included over twenty-two hours spent exploring the lunar surface during which they collected over 250 pounds of lunar samples.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/91760/thethirty-ninth-anniversay-of-the-last-moonwalk/#ixzz2EyBr7pF5
On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. Jack Schmitt made the final lunar EVA or moonwalk of the final Apollo mission. Theirs was the longest stay on the Moon at just over three days and included over twenty-two hours spent exploring the lunar surface during which they collected over 250 pounds of lunar samples.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/91760/thethirty-ninth-anniversay-of-the-last-moonwalk/#ixzz2EyBr7pF5
Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt stands next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), which transported Schmitt and Eugene A. Cernan to this extravehicular station from their Lunar Module (LM), is seen in the background. This image is a mosaic made from two pictures taken by Cernan. Image Credit: NASA/Eugene Cernan
Cernan's Apollo 17 lunar suit is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, just one of the 137 million Apollo-era artifacts in the museum's collection. Image Credit: National Air and Space Museum
NASA image of the day: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2129.html
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Today is The Fortieth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk (Original Post)
progressoid
Dec 2012
OP
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)1. Doesn't 2012 - 1972 = 40?
progressoid
(49,992 posts)2. Doh!
Edited it! Thanks. I was reading a post from last year.
drm604
(16,230 posts)3. K&R
This stuff always affects me emotionally. I was a kid during Apollo.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)4. Hard to believe it's been forty years