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11 December 1972

Apollo 17 mission.

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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This image was selected as a picture of the day for May 29, 2006. It was captioned as followed: English: Apollo 17 mission on Moon, 11 December 1972 Deutsch: Apollo 17 Mission auf dem Mond (11. Dezember 1972) Français : Mission d'Apollo 17 sur la lune Español: Misión en la Luna del Apolo 17, 11 de diciembre de 1972 العربية: رحلة أبولو 17 على القمرِ، 11 ديسمبر 1972 Česky: Výprava Apollo 17 na Měsíc, 11. prosince 1972 Dansk: En astronaut fra Apollo 17 missionen til Månen, 11. december 1972 Deutsch: Apollo 17 Mission auf dem Mond (11. Dezember 1972) English: Apollo 17 mission on Moon, 11 December 1972 Español: Misión en la Luna del Apolo 17, 11 de diciembre de 1972 Français : Mission d'Apollo 17 sur la lune Galego: Misión Apollo 17 (na lúa o 11 de decembro de 1972) Magyar : Az Apolló–17 misszió a Holdon (1972. december 11.) Italiano: Missione Apollo 17 sulla Luna, 11 dicembre 1972 日本語: 1972年12月11日に行われた、アポロ17号の月でのミッション Lëtzebuergesch : D'Apollo 17 Missioun um Mound, 11. Dezember 1972 Polski: Misja Apollo 17 na Księżycu, 11 grudnia 1972 Português: Missão da Apollo 17 na lua, em 11 de dezembro de 1972. Русский: Экспедиция космического корабля «Аполлон-17» на Луне (11 декабря 1972 г.) Slovenčina: Apollo 17 na Mesiaci, 11. december 1972. Na fotografii Eugene A. Cernan pri kontrole vozidla Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Svenska: Apollo 17-uppdraget, på månen 1972. zh-hans: 1972年12月11日阿波罗17登月项目在月球上探险。 zh-hant: 1972年12月11日阿波羅17號在月球上正進行登月探險。

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