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 ...ORE APOLLO 17 DETAILS
The lunar module pilot for Apollo 17, Dr Harrison Schmitt,
and other scientists concerned with the analysis of lunar
rock samples gave more details at a news conference held
in W...
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 ...48 FLIGHT International, 28 December (972
Apollo 17: the final chapter
WITH THE LAST THREE lunar explorers safely back on Earth, the Apollo Moon programme has come to an end. The final act, splashdown of the Apollo 17
command module in the ...
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 ...LIGHT International, 21 December 1972
Apollo 17:
down in the valley
BY THE TIME OF DEPARTURE from the Moon on December 14, the final Apollo mission looked like becoming the most undramatic operationally but the most reward
ing scientif...
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 ...t Massif and,
at the extreme right, is the eastern tip of the
South Massif. The Sun angle is noticeably
higher than in the top left picture. Far right,
a crescent Earth appears on the horizon as
Apollo 17 emerges from the back of the Moon
during one of the last few orbits before
departure
NASA PICTURES
THE APOLLO 17 SITE was in a valley about nine miles in diameter, bounded by mountain
m...
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 ... co-operative docking missions, with
the remainder being used for two/four-week orbital survey
flights. There is still, however, a chance that the second
of the two remaining Apollo Moon missions, Apollo 17, may
be cancelled to release the equipment for one of these
operations. The Apollo 17 subsatellite has now been
brought forward to Apollo 16 in anticipation of such a
cancellation, and t...
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 ...ystem.
Its surface contains evidence of the impact of huge rocky
debris which remained from the building process. This
FLIGHT International, 11 January 1973
Full view of the instrument bay in the Apollo 17 service module seen
through the window of the lunar module during rendezvous after lift
off from the Moon. Part of the lunar module appears in the lower part
of the picture
record has lo...
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 ...will occur at 0635 GMT on
December 15, about 8hr after lift-off. The impact force of
the 4,8501b ascent module will be equivalent to that of
1,6001b of TNT. The distance was selected as being far
APOLLO 17 SCHEDULE
847
Lift-off
Leave Earth orbit
LM docking manoeuvre begins
First check-out of LM begins
Second check-out of LM begins
Jettison Sim-bay cover
Enter lunar orbit at 60 X 197 mi...
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 ...82
The last departure
Perfect launch for Apollo 17 following delay in last
seconds of countdown
TODAY, DECEMBER 14, 1972, will perhaps rank second to July 21, 1969, as a milestone in space exploration. Today, Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cer...
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 ...oor" action, it is thought
that redefinition of some of the systems and integration
methods may improve the situation and it is for this reason
that the F.12 launch has been postponed until 1973.
APOLLO 17 DESTINATION
The final Apollo Moon-landing mission, Apollo 17, is to
visit an area between the Taurus Mountains and the
nearby Littrow Crater. The site lies just beyond the south
east edg...
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APOLLO 17
(THE FINAL LUNAR MISSION)
DECEMBER 1972
A 9/10 days Excursion to Cape Kennedy
has been arranged to observe the lift-off
of Apollo 17. Boeing 707 flights to Florida,
departing 2nd Decem...
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 ...uip
ment aboard ATS-1 and -3. The programme is in fact
being run on a co-operative basis with Nasa which
launched the satellite in return for data which will be
obtained.
FINAL MOON FLIGHT CREW
Apollo 17 is to be commanded by Capt Eugene A. Cernan,
USN (39) with Cdr Ronald E. Evans, USN (37) as command
module pilot. Lunar module pilot is to be Harrison H.
Schmitt (36), a civilian and the ...
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 ...ement of the
fully reusable booster. Another disadvantage, however, is
that the RS-IC would require up to double the specified
14-day turn-around time for the shuttle.
SITE SELECTION QUANDARY FOR APOLLO 17
Nasa hopes to make a final decision on the landing site for
the last Moon mission, Apollo 17, before the end of the
year. Possibly the hardest decision yet required of Nasa in
the Apollo...
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 ...ish Hovercraft
Corporation. Following the re-organi-
sating of the helicopter business and
the closing of the factory at Hayes
the directors expect an increase in
company profits during 1972-73.
Apollo 17 smoothest flight to the Moon
At the end of the most uneventful
outbound flight in the Apollo Moon
programme, Apollo 17 went into lunar
orbit at 1947 GMT on December 10.
The arrival was ...
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Back in 1972 these
Apollo 17 photographs
awakened man's awareness
to (he possibilities of space for
monitoring the Heath's environment
PLANET EARTH
Delegates to the Earth Summit in Rio defaneiro have been told how ...
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 ...ld.
At the time of going to press, fuelling and count
down rehearsals had been completed smoothly with no
reports of even the minor hitches which have preceded
earlier missions.
The commander of Apollo 17, Eugene Cernan, is making
his second flight to the Moon, having flown on Apollo 10
as lunar module pilot when he took the LM to within nine
miles of the Moon's surface. He also flew in Ge...
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 ... struc
ture is that of a Saturn S.IVB third stage, measuring 48ft,
14-6m in length and 22ft, 6-7m in diameter. Internal
volume is 9,550 cu ft, 270m3 and total weight is about
55,5001b, 25,175kg.
APOLLO 17 PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
The sixth and final Moon mission, Apollo 17, is planned
as the longest of any of the Apollo flights, being scheduled
to last 304hr 31min. The mission will also be the...
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 ...t men on the
Moon, as far as the American Apollo team is concerned,
were named by Nasa five days after Endeavour's splash
down.
In days of talks with Nasa chiefs I found no alarm that
this final Apollo 17 mission, due in December, 1972, would
be cancelled. An overt move in Congress to axe it, to
gether with Apollo 16, due next March, was defeated some
months ago without much difficulty. Ve...
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 ...auts Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 lunar-module pilot,
and James Irwin, LM pilot on Apollo 15, have both
announced plans to leave Nasa within the next few months.
Irwin was one of the back-up crew for Apollo 17 with
Alfred Worden and David Scott, who have now been
assigned to the space shuttle programme. They will be
joined by Apollo 16 command-module pilot Ken Mattingly.
John Young, Charles Du...
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 ... that was originally applied to the major
systems of the Apollo spacecraft and lunar module several
years ago.
The original flight schedules called for the first utilisation of
a man-rated LRV on Apollo 17 in the autumn of 1971. LRV-1
would be launched in the descent stage of Lunar Module 11.
But with the cancellation of Apollo 20 and the extended
interval between flights, the first operati...
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 ...ic instru
ment bay of the service module. It comprised a gamma-ray
spectrometer, an X-ray fluorescence pack and an alpha-
particle spectrometer for Apollo 15 and 16 and an infra-red
radiometer for Apollo 17. All three missions used the
high-resolution panoramic and mapping cameras to provide
detailed views of the ground track. The information
returned from these remote sensors helped scienti...
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