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Astronaut Ronald Evans is su
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Astronaut Ronald Evans is suited up for EVA training |
| Description |
Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, is assisted by technicians in suiting up for extravehicular activity (EVA) training in a water tank in bldg 5 at the Manned Spacecraft Center (49970), Evans participates in EVA training in a water tank in bldg 5 at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The structure in the picture simulates the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) bay of the Apollo 17 Service Module (49971). |
| Date Taken |
1972-09-13 |
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Mission Operations Control C
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Mission Operations Control Center during Apollo 17 launch |
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Flight director's console during the Apollo 17 liftoff. View shows Neil Hutchingson, Eugene Kranz and Gerald Griffin in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR), bldg 30, Mission Control Center. |
| Date Taken |
1972-12-06 |
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Seismometer reading viewed i
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Seismometer reading viewed in ALSEP Room in Misson Control during Apollo 17 |
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The seismometer readings from the impact made by the Apollo 17 Saturn S-IVB stage when it struck the lunar surface are viewed in the ALSEP Room in the Misson Control Center at Houston by Dr. Maurice Ewing, professor of geophysics of the Universtiy of Texas at Galveston. The seismic tracings are from sensings made by seismometers of Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages left on the Moon during earlier Apollo lunar landing missions. |
| Date Taken |
1972-12-10 |
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72255 |
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A close-up view of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72255 which was brought back from the lunar surface by the final team of Apollo astronauts. The rock weighs 461.2 grams and measures 2.5x9x10.5 centimeters. The light grey breccia is sub-rounded on all faces except the top and north sides. |
| Date Taken |
1972-01-18 |
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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt l
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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt looks at "orange" soil brought back by Apollo 17 |
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Scientist-Astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt (facing camera), Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, was one of the first to look at the sample of "orange" soil brought back from the Taurus-Littrow landing site by the Apollo 17 crewmen. |
| Date Taken |
1972-12-27 |
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72415,0 |
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A close-up view of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72415,0 which was brought back from the lunar surface by the final team of Apollo astronauts. This sample is a brecciated dunite clast weighing a little over 32 grams (about 1.14 ounces). This sample was collected at Station 2 (South Massif) during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-2). |
| Date Taken |
1972-01-18 |
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72415,0 |
| Description |
A close-up view of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 72415,0 which was brought back from the lunar surface by the final team of Apollo astronauts. This sample is a brecciated dunite clast weighing a little over 32 grams (about 1.14 ounces). This sample was collected at Station 2 (South Massif) during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-2). |
| Date Taken |
1972-01-18 |
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock
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View of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 76055 |
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A close-up view of Apollo 17 lunar rock sample no. 76055 being studied and analyzed in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center. This tan-gray irregular, rounded breccia was among many lunar samples brought back from the Taurus-Littrow landing site by the Apollo 17 crew. The rock measures 18x20x25 centimeters (7.09x7.87x9.84 inches) and weighs 6,389 grams (14.2554 pounds). The rock was collected from the south side of the Lunar Roving Vehicle while the Apollo 17 astronauts were at Station 6 (base of North Massif). |
| Date Taken |
1972-01-18 |
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Two of Apollo 17 crewmen joi
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Two of Apollo 17 crewmen join in commemoration of their lunar landing mission |
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Two of the three Apollo 17 crewmen join in commemoration of their historic lunar landing mission of one year ago by presenting the flight controllers in Mission Control Center (MSC) the U.S. flag which flew with them to the Moon. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, center, Apollo 17 commander, and Harrison H. Schmitt, right, lunar module pilot, are shown with Eugene F. Kranz, who accepted the flag on behalf of all the flight controllers during special ceremonies in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of MCC during the third manned Skylab mission. Kranz is Chief of the Flight Control Division of the Flight Operations Directorate at JSC. |
| Date Taken |
1973-12-11 |
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