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Tag Archives: Schmitt
Jack Schmitt’s Christmas Poem
NASA didn’t give its Apollo astronauts too much free time during missions. Crews had to go through multi-stage checklists before any manoeuvre and had experiments to run during the three day transits to and from the Moon. Everything, down to … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, History of Space Science, Manned Spaceflight, Moon
Tagged Apollo, Apollo 17, Apollo 8, Cernan, Christmas, Evans, Fullerton, NASA, Poem, Schmitt
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The Last Words on the Moon
We’ve just passed the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17 leaving the Moon. On December 14, 1972, commander Gene Cernan and lunar module pilot Jack Schmitt in the LM Challenger blasted off from Taurus-Littrow, ending the last manned lunar sojourn. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, History of Space Science, Manned Spaceflight
Tagged America, Apollo, Apollo 17, Cernan, Challenger, Earth, Evans, Moon, NASA, Schmitt, Taurus-Littrow
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