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3 days ago · Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan with the lunar rover in December 1972, in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley. Credit: NASA ...
4 days ago · The astronauts were pilots Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Joe Engle, and Eugene Cernan. They were not geologists by training, but visiting Craters of the Moon helped them prepare for future Apollo Moon missions by exploring the unusual and harsh lava landscape, studying volcanic geology, and collecting rock samples.
3 days ago · Gene Kranz called a meeting of his staff in Mission Control three days after the accident, delivering a speech which has subsequently become one of NASA's principles. [62]
4 days ago · Two astronauts from each of these six missions walked on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Gene Cernan, and Harrison Schmitt), the only humans to have set foot on another solar system body.
4 days ago · Description. The Apollo 17 Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" was the sixth and last lunar lander in the Apollo program. It carried two astronauts, Commander Eugene A. Cernan and LM pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, the eleventh and twelfth men to walk on the Moon. Schmitt was the first scientist-astronaut to walk on the Moon.
6 hours ago · Flown translational hand controller T-grip used by Commander Gene Cernan to safely guide the Command Module America back into Earth’s atmosphere following the successful completion of the Apollo 17 mission, the last of NASA’s momentous moon-landing journeys. The gray-tone grip, 3.25˝ x 2˝ x 1˝, features a pair of “Class III, Not for ...
4 days ago · They then discuss everything from autographs to flown heat-shield lucites. Downsizing a bit, Bryan is moving to North Carolina shortly and -- teaser! -- there won't be a garage sale. You will, however, hear some fun stories from the hey-day of the autograph shows, including a unique interaction with the Last Man to Walk on the Moon, Gene Cernan.
