Fwd: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 4 – “We Shall Return”

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Date: December 9, 2012 5:01:14 AM GMT-06:00
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Subject: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 4 – "We Shall Return"

Ben Evans posted: "[caption id="attachment_27908" align="aligncenter" width="453"] The fragility of Earth hangs like a Christmas bauble in the black sky above Taurus-Littrow. Together with Old Glory—earlier planted by Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt—it offered one of the f" New post on AmericaSpace 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 4 – "We Shall Return" by Ben Evans Forty years ago, this month, the ethereal stillness and silence of ages in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley was broken by the arrival of two explorers from Planet Earth, riding the fire of a spider-like craft which they had dubbed "Challenger." Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt landed in the three-mile-wide valley and for three days [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | December 9, 2012 at 6:00 am | Tags: America (Command Module), Apollo, Apollo 10, Astronaut, Cape Canaveral, Challenger (Lunar Module), Chris Kraft, Exploration, Explore, Gene Cernan, Human Space Flight, Jack Schmitt, John Young, Johnson Space Center, JSC, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Lunar, lunar rover, Moon, Nansen, NASA, North Massif, rocket, Rockets, Ron Evans, Sculptured Hills, Shorty Crater, South Massif, Space, space exploration, Taurus-Littrow | Categories: Apollo, Ben Evans, Moon, NASA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7g5 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=27905