Martin Antonenko
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The Last Man On The Moon ...
When the commander of "Apollo 17", Eugene Cernan, climbed back into the lunar module "Challenger" at exactly 8:40 on December 14, 1972 ...
... and starts together with his colleague Harrison Schmitt...
... from the Earth Trabber (a stationary camera left behind films the start and transmits the images to Earth) ...
... to start back to "Apollo 17", which is orbiting the moon with the third astronaut of the mission, Ronald Evans...
... on board ...
... he knows what the world population, still breathlessly amazed in front of the television sets, is still to experience:
Cernan was the eleventh person to step on the moon - and he will be the last for a long time!
"Apollo 17" is the last mission of the project of the same name by the US space agency "NASA"; the enormously expensive program has to be discontinued for cost reasons!
During his "moon walks" ...
... Cernan had in addition to scientific experiments also reactivated the so-called "moon car", made a few laps with the specially developed electric vehicle ...
... and caused "sheet metal damage" when he got caught on the fender of the vehicle with a rock hammer hanging from his belt.
The hammer knocks a hole in one of the fenders and the dust thrown up through the hole when driving causes serious visibility problems (there is no wind on the moon, so the dust cannot blow away).
On the spur of the moment, Cernan and Schmitt patch the fender with a misappropriated moon map and tape!
In this condition the "moon car" stands around on the earth's satellite to this day ...:
What remains is the landing part of the lunar module - with the usual badge ...:
Shortly before the return start, Cernan adds another detail: He comes from the Czech Republic and is so immensely proud of his country of origin that he affixes another badge to the remaining part of the lander ...:
Almost everyone is familiar with the name of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. Cernan, the last one so far, is almost forgotten today!
Eugene Cernan died on January 16, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
When the commander of "Apollo 17", Eugene Cernan, climbed back into the lunar module "Challenger" at exactly 8:40 on December 14, 1972 ...
... and starts together with his colleague Harrison Schmitt...
... from the Earth Trabber (a stationary camera left behind films the start and transmits the images to Earth) ...
... to start back to "Apollo 17", which is orbiting the moon with the third astronaut of the mission, Ronald Evans...
... on board ...
... he knows what the world population, still breathlessly amazed in front of the television sets, is still to experience:
Cernan was the eleventh person to step on the moon - and he will be the last for a long time!
"Apollo 17" is the last mission of the project of the same name by the US space agency "NASA"; the enormously expensive program has to be discontinued for cost reasons!
During his "moon walks" ...
... Cernan had in addition to scientific experiments also reactivated the so-called "moon car", made a few laps with the specially developed electric vehicle ...
... and caused "sheet metal damage" when he got caught on the fender of the vehicle with a rock hammer hanging from his belt.
The hammer knocks a hole in one of the fenders and the dust thrown up through the hole when driving causes serious visibility problems (there is no wind on the moon, so the dust cannot blow away).
On the spur of the moment, Cernan and Schmitt patch the fender with a misappropriated moon map and tape!
In this condition the "moon car" stands around on the earth's satellite to this day ...:
What remains is the landing part of the lunar module - with the usual badge ...:
Shortly before the return start, Cernan adds another detail: He comes from the Czech Republic and is so immensely proud of his country of origin that he affixes another badge to the remaining part of the lander ...:
Almost everyone is familiar with the name of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. Cernan, the last one so far, is almost forgotten today!
Eugene Cernan died on January 16, 2017 in Houston, Texas.
