Last Lunar Walkabout December 1972

[SorellaLaBefana]

... Fifty three years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This snapshot from another world was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the lunar valley's floor...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251206.html

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end ...

[chicoescuela]

1. I see no evidence of cheese. Sad this era is over.

[lastlib]

2. Gene Cernan's moonwalk.....

was head, shoulders, waist and hips above Michael Jackson's.

I followed every one of these missions, guled to the TV. Still have newspaper clippings and books about them.