Apollo 17 - Multimedia

Multimedia

• The Apollo 17 Saturn V awaits launch.

• Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch

• Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon (now known as "The Blue Marble photo").

• Astronaut Harrison Schmitt falls while on a Moonwalk.

• Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.

• Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA. Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor.

• Schmitt stands next to a large boulder during EVA 3.

• Cernan in the lunar module after EVA 3.

• Schmitt in the lunar module after EVA 3.

• Apollo 17's Lunar Module blasts off and leaves the Moon.

• Evans performs an EVA before returning home.

• The plaque left on the Moon by Apollo 17.

• A model of the UV spectrometer used to take the first accurate measurements of the constituents of the Moon's atmosphere.

• Landing site, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009.

• Narrow-angle image of the LM Challenger descent stage surrounded by LRV tracks and footprints, as

• Imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011.