Forty
years ago today on Dec. 11, 1972, astronaut Eugene A. Cernan,
commander, makes a short checkout of the lunar rover during the early
part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the
Taurus-Littrow landing site. This view of the "stripped down" rover is
prior to loading up. Equipment later loaded onto the rover 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 "Challenger"
to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot,
remained with the Command and Service Modules "America" in lunar orbit.
Image Credit: NASA
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