Episodes Tagged with "Apollo 17"

Jun 2

Space Rocket History #163 – Apollo 8 – Lovell, Logistics & Training

Posted on June 2, 2016

The successful Apollo 7 flight cleared the way for a US moon landing in 1969. Still a lot of flight and ground testing remained and there would probably be surprises. The greatest concern was Nasa had to complete three virtually flawless missions a...

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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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Nov 10

Space Rocket History #376 – Apollo 17 – Moonwalk 1

Posted on November 10, 2021

Gene Cernan’s first words were “As I step off at the surface of Taurus-Littrow, I’d like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo Seventeen to all those who made it possible.”

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

Nov 24

Space Rocket History #377 – Apollo 17 – Moonwalk 1 & 2 – Orange Soil

Posted on November 24, 2021

“How can there be orange soil on the Moon?! (Pause) Jack, that is really orange.” Gene Cernan

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

Dec 8

Space Rocket History #378 – Apollo 17 – Moonwalk 3 – The Last Steps on the Moon

Posted on December 8, 2021

“As we leave the Moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo Seventeen.” – Gene Cernan’s final words from the surface of the Moon.

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

Dec 22

Space Rocket History #379 – Apollo 17 – Lunar Lift off, Docking & Orbital Science

Posted on December 22, 2021

At 4:56 Houston time, Gene rested the tip of his left index finger on the yellow ignition button.

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Jan 12

Space Rocket History #380 – Apollo 17 – The Finale

Posted on January 12, 2022

The Apollo 17 mission was the most productive and trouble-free piloted mission to the moon and represented the culmination of continual advancements in hardware, procedures, training, planning, operations, and scientific experiments.

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Tagged:Apollo 17, Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, Schmitt, Ticonderoga

Apr 6

Space Rocket History #386 – Skylab – Pre-history

Posted on April 6, 2022

A scant five months after Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in December of 1972, NASA launched Skylab to begin a new phase of American manned spaceflight – space station operations.

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