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Apollo 17: Checking the Lunar Rover Target Name:   Moon Spacecraft:   Apollo 17 Produced by:   NASA Copyright:  Public Domain Date Taken:   11 December 1972 Related Documents En route to Mars, the Moon The Moon Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size as17-147-22526.jpg JPEG 640 x 640 96K as17-147-22526.jpg JPEG 3000 x 3000 2M 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 astronaut's 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.

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