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Eugene Cernan or Harrison Schmitt

The Command Module America seen from the LM returning from the Moon

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, orbit 52, 189:43:55 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm, (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS17-145-22239” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, three filing holes in top margin

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Ronald Evans

The Lunar Module Challenger back from the lunar surface for rendezvous

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, orbit 52

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS17-149-22848” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm, (8 x 10in)

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Evans was in his 52th orbit on board the CSM America when Cernan and Schmitt on board the LM Challenger joined him from the lunar surface for rendez-vous.

They photographed the gleaming America with the 60mm lens and the transparent glass reseau plate engraved with grid markings of the lunar surface Hasselblad camera (Apollo 17 was the only crew with Apollo 15 to bring back cameras from the surface).

Evans holds the record for the longest time spent in lunar orbit: six days, three hours and 48 minutes.

189:43:55 Evans: How come you guys do everything upside down?
189:44:12 Cernan: Okay, let’s let it drift in like this slowly.
189:44:14 Evans: Okay. You still have it.
189:44:18 Cernan: I’ve still got it.
189:44:27 Cernan: Ron, I’m going to stop it here, and you can do your maneuver.
189:44:31 Evans: Okay.
189:44:33 Cernan: Okay, I’m stationkeeping on you.

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Ron Evans took the photograph through the 80mm lens over the 92-km Crater Banachiewicz located to the west of Smyth’s Sea on the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. Latitude/ longitude: 4.3° N / 78° E.