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Eugene Cernan

The LM Challenger, the Lunar Rover, Harrison Schmitt and the American flag

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 169:30:33 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 AS17-140-20467” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

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Harrison Schmitt

Portrait of Eugene Cernan with the Lunar Rover

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 169:39:46 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 AS17-134-20477” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

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Taken by the RCA TV Camera mounted on the Lunar Rover

Harrison Schmitt presenting a lunar rock to TV viewers on Earth

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, EVA 3, 169:44:45 GET

Unpublished B&W TV still from a color television transmission, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), stamped “RCA Astro-Electronics 72-12-537” on the verso (NASA / RCA)
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Cernan went east of the LM next to the American flag with his camera to take this beautiful “tourist” portrait of the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

“When we had color film in one of the cameras - usually in Cernan’s camera - we were making the first use of a brand new Kodak Ektachrome film.”
Harrison Schmitt (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 146:08:41)

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A superb “tourist” photograph of Cernan posing with the Lunar Rover at the Taurus-Littrow landing site at the end of the last EVA on the lunar surface.

Following the mission, NASA released a variant of this image (AS17-134-20476).

169:39:46 Schmitt: Ed (Fendell at Mission Control), you’ve got your camera (the TV camera of the Rover) in the way.
169:39:48 Cernan: Oh, just take them straight on. That’s all right.
169:39:50 Schmitt: (Taking pictures toward the Rover) That’s sort of...(garbled). Okay. (Laughs) Such (a) pose. (Pause) Let me get a little different (pause) focus. (Pause) That looks good.
169:40:09 Cernan: Okay.
169:40:10 Schmitt: (I’ll) try one more over here. Have your pick. (Pause) One more.
169:40:15 Cernan: How’s like this? (Pause)

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169:44:45 Cernan: It’s a rock composed of many fragments, of many sizes, and many shapes,
probably from all parts of the Moon, perhaps billions of years old. But fragments of all sizes and shapes - and even colors - that have grown together to become a cohesive rock, outlasting the nature of space, sort of living together in a very coherent, very peaceful manner. When we return this rock or some of the others like it to Houston, we’d like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the world. We hope that this will be a symbol of what our feelings are, what the feelings of the Apollo Program are, and a symbol of mankind that we can live in peace and harmony in the future.