Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle, 11 December 1972, enhanced
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander, makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the early part of the first Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-1) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the "stripped down" LRV is prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the LRV included the ground-controlled television assembly, the lunar communications relay unit, hi-gain antenna, low-gain antenna, aft tool pallet, lunar tools and scientific gear. This photograph was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. The mountain in the right background is the east end of South Massif. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar-orbit.
Original image and text by NASA, further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
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April 2nd, 2017
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