Fwd: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 3 – End of the Beginning

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From: AmericaSpace <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: December 8, 2012 5:02:01 AM CST
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Subject: [New post] 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 3 – End of the Beginning

Ben Evans posted: "[caption id="attachment_27894" align="aligncenter" width="462"] In the final manned flight of a Saturn V—and the behemoth rocket's only nocturnal launch—the astronauts of Apollo 17 roar into low-Earth orbit in the opening minutes of 7 December 1972. T" New post on AmericaSpace 40 Years Since Apollo 17: Part 3 – End of the Beginning by Ben Evans Forty years ago, this month, two human explorers bounced and bounded across the surface of the Moon at a mountainous place called Taurus-Littrow. Clad in their snowman-like suits, they formed a stark contrast with the almost uniform greyness of the lunar terrain around them. At the time of writing, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt are [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | December 8, 2012 at 6:00 am | Tags: America (Command Module), Apollo, Apollo 17, 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 outpost, Moon, Nansen, NASA, North Massif, rocket, Rockets, Ron Evans, Saturn V, Sculptured Hills, Shorty Crater, South Massif, Space, space exploration, Taurus-Littrow | Categories: Apollo, astronaut, Ben Evans, Moon, NASA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7fE 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=27878