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Oct 27

Space Rocket History #375 – Apollo 17 – The Last Manned Landing

Posted on October 27, 2021

Gene had a deadlock visual on the landing site. He knew exactly where he was, and the LM had become part of him, responding to his wishes as well as his touch on the controls as they lowered closer to the surface.

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Tagged:America, Apollo 17, Challenger, Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, Schmitt

Oct 13

Space Rocket History #374 – Apollo 17 – To the Moon

Posted on October 13, 2021

For the next two days, Jack Schmitt would do a running account of Earth’s weather patterns. One Capcom even called Schmitt the human weather satellite.

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans

Sep 29

Space Rocket History #373 – Apollo 17 – The Launch

Posted on September 29, 2021

At 12:33 A.M. Dec. 7th 1972, “the hold-down arms released and the mighty Saturn V stirred, balanced on a dazzling fireball that grew to the size of an atomic bomb. As a show-stopping spectacular, nothing in the entire space program compared to the ni...

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans

Sep 15

Space Rocket History #372 – Apollo 17 – Glitches

Posted on September 15, 2021

By the time they reached the elevator, Cernan felt absolutely charmed, and was grinning from ear to ear. His Saturn V sparkled like a 363-foot-high jewel rampant against the night sky, center stage and draped in spotlights. Deke Slayton & Ron Evan...

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Challenger, Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans

Sep 1

Space Rocket History #371 – Apollo 17 – Commander Eugene Cernan

Posted on September 1, 2021

Flight director Gene Kranz wrote that Cernan was his favorite because of his carefree and jovial attitude, unabashed patriotism, and his close personal relationship with the flight controllers. Cernan (1964)Cernan on the MoonApollo 17 mission comma...

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Challenger, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans, Taurus Littrow

Aug 18

Space Rocket History #370 – Apollo 17 – Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt

Posted on August 18, 2021

Harrison Schmitt played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface. After each of the landing missions, he participated in the ex...

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Challenger, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans, Taurus Littrow

Aug 4

Space Rocket History #369 – Apollo 17 – Mankind’s Last Giant Leap

Posted on August 4, 2021

Apollo 17 would break several crewed spaceflight records: 1) longest moon mission duration: 12 days 13 hours 52 minutes (just a day and a third shorter than the 14 days set in 1965 by Gemini 7), 2) longest total lunar surface extravehicular activitie...

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Tagged:America, Apollo 17, Challenger, Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ron Evans, Taurus Littrow, Ticonderoga

Jul 21

Space Rocket History #368 – Apollo 16 – Splashdown

Posted on July 21, 2021

On re-entry Casper hit the atmosphere at an altitude of about 400,000 feet above the earth and at a velocity of nearly 25,000 miles per hour. Parachute DeploymentSplashdownTiconderoga Ceremony

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Tagged:Apollo 16, Casper, Charlie Duke, John Young, Ken Mattingly, Ticonderoga

Jun 23

Space Rocket History #367 – Apollo 16 – Rendezvous, Docking, Ascent Stage Dump, Ken’s EVA and Lord of the Wedding Rings

Posted on June 23, 2021

The LM eventually crashed due to lunar gravity anomalies. Since Houston didn’t know exactly where it landed, it was not useful to calibrate seismic experiments on the surface. EarthriseDamaged Ascent StageCasper

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Tagged:Apollo 16, Casper, Charlie Duke, John Young, Ken Mattingly

Jun 9

Space Rocket History #366 – Apollo 16 – Moonwalk 3, Lunar Olympics & Lift-off From the Moon

Posted on June 9, 2021

It was the only time in their whole lunar stay that Charlie had a real moment of panic and thought he had killed himself. Shadow RockDuke Family PhotoLift-off

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Tagged:Apollo 16, Charlie Duke, John Young, Ken Mattingly, Shadow Rock

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