Fwd: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 1 – Picking the Men

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From: AmericaSpace <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: December 1, 2012 5:02:31 AM CST
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Subject: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 1 – Picking the Men

Ben Evans posted: "  [caption id="attachment_27673" align="aligncenter" width="464"] Standing near a huge boulder overlooking the scenic grandeur of the Taurus-Littrow valley, Jack Schmitt became the first—and so far only—professional geologist to visit another wo" New post on AmericaSpace 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 1 – Picking the Men by Ben Evans   Forty years ago this month, humanity left its last footprints on the surface of another celestial body. Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt guided their lunar module Challenger down into a beautiful valley in the Taurus Mountains, on the edge of the Moon's Serenitatis basin, just south of the ancient crater Littrow. The [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | December 1, 2012 at 6:00 am | Tags: Al Shepard, Andrew Chaikin, Apollo, Apollo 14, Apollo 17, Apollo 8, Astronaut, Bill Anders, Cape Canaveral, Challenger, Deke Slayton, Dick Gordon, Exploration, Explore, Gene Cernan, Human Space Flight, Jack Schmitt, Joe Engle, Lunar, Lunar Module, Moon, NASA, National Academy of Sciences, rocket, Rockets, Ron Evans, Space, space exploration, Taurus-Littrow, Tom Stafford, Vance Brand | Categories: Apollo, astronaut, Ben Evans, Moon, NASA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7ch Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=27669