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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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.
P3-Landing Site
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P1-View from the LM of the landing site. The Command Module in the foreground, taken by Gene Cernan one orbit before the landing