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Apollo 17: E. Cernan on the Moon

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-apo17-30029

Date

2007-07-22

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander, walks toward the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during Extravehicular Activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site of NASA's sixth and final Apollo lunar landing mission. The photograph was taken by astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the Moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar orbit