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Astronaut Eugene Cernan drives the Lunar Roving Vehicle during first EVA

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AS17-147-22526 (11 Dec. 1972) --- Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the "stripped down" LRV is prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the LRV included the ground-controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, hi-gain antenna, low-gain antenna, aft tool pallet, lunar tools and scientific gear. This photograph was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. The mountain in the right background is the east end of South Massif. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar orbit.

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon, launched at 12:33 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.

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apollo 17 flight apollo project astronauts extravehicular activity lunar landing sites lunar roving vehicles lunar surface lunar surface vehicles johnson space center apollo apollo program astronaut eugene cernan drives astronaut eugene cernan drives lunar vehicle eva astronaut costume eva space suit high resolution lrv commander command module pilot astronauts cernan lunar module astronaut eugene module pilot astronaut ronald schmitt service modules first eva first apollo hi gain antenna low gain antenna tool pallet tools scientist astronaut harrison right background south massif moon moon landing nasa
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10/12/1972
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Apollo 17

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program
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label_outline Explore Lunar Surface Lunar Surface Vehicles, South Massif, Astronauts Cernan

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apollo 17 flight apollo project astronauts extravehicular activity lunar landing sites lunar roving vehicles lunar surface lunar surface vehicles johnson space center apollo apollo program astronaut eugene cernan drives astronaut eugene cernan drives lunar vehicle eva astronaut costume eva space suit high resolution lrv commander command module pilot astronauts cernan lunar module astronaut eugene module pilot astronaut ronald schmitt service modules first eva first apollo hi gain antenna low gain antenna tool pallet tools scientist astronaut harrison right background south massif moon moon landing nasa