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Apollo 17: Last on the Moon
Credit: Apollo 17, NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
Explanation: In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague
Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Near the beginning of their third and final excursion across
the lunar surface, Schmitt took this picture of Cernan flanked by an American flag and their
lunar rover's umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna. T
Credit: Apollo 17, NASA (Image scanned by Kipp Teague)
Explanation: In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague
Ronald Evans orbited overhead. Near the beginning of their third and final excursion across
the lunar surface, Schmitt took this picture of Cernan flanked by an American flag and their
lunar rover's umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna. T