APOLLO 17 LUNAR MISSION 1972 " ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS " NASA DOCUMENTARY 17694
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"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" tells the story of the Apollo 17 mission -- the final mission in the program.
Apollo 17 (December 7-19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program; it remains the most recent time humans have travelled beyond low Earth orbit. Its crew consisted of Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and it carried a biological experiment containing five mice.
Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 was a "J-type mission" that included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the use of the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).
Cernan and Schmitt landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. The landing site had been chosen to further the mission's main goals: to sample lunar highland material older than Mare Imbrium, and to investigate the possibility of relatively recent volcanic activity. Evans remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), taking scientific measurements and photographs.
Cernan, Evans, Schmitt, and the mice returned to Earth on December 19.
Apollo 17 was the first mission to have no one on board who had been a test pilot; X-15 test pilot Joe Engle lost the lunar module pilot assignment to Schmitt, a geologist. The mission included the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the final crewed launch of a Saturn V rocket. It was also the final use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose (extra Apollo spacecraft were later used in the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs).
The mission broke several crewed spaceflight records: the longest Moon landing, longest total extravehicular activities (moonwalks), largest lunar sample, longest time in lunar orbit, and, at 75, most lunar orbits
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18:09 Just appreciate the extremely advanced CGI for 1973. An animated shaded polygon render with directional lighting with a good number of triangular and tetragonal polygons making up the models.
Just goes does one achieve such a spectacular level of stupidity and self delusion? Is there a university for you people where you learn to be that stupid? Do you have neuro surgery? How?
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I would have been 15 years old then and the networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) stopped covering the Apollo missions for the last few and I wasn't to happy about that. Though, they did start covering the Shuttle lunches a few years later. Had to wait till I'm 62 to see this one. Better late then never, they say.
All three of the TV networks covered the launches and splashdowns of every _Apollo_ mission, however, the moonwalks (and rides) had sparse TV coverage. _Skylab_ launches to the early _STS_ mission launches were also broadcasted live.
I'm envious of those living in America back then. What a bold, brave era, "On the Shoulders of Giants" - feels like we're rolling around with mental midgets now...
God i would give anything could u imagine having memories of exploring another world
Me too. Unbelievable what they did. I would give anything possible to See another World.
We don’t have the technological ability to do this today, what went wrong?
Money, what else?
I mean, SLS and the Artemis missions were well on their way, 3 years ago when you posted this...
The entire Apollo program to the moon took place before I turned 20. BUT I watched 👀 closely. I still remember it like it happened yesterday!
So sad that many of our youth imaged it was all a fake !
They were super excited about the orange dirt.
My uncle D. Boyd was part of it
The space must flow!
Spice?
Odd curiosity, why does the tape play like 1/2sec faster
0.75 Slomo & 1.15 seem normal play speed.
A funny thing happened on the way to the moon.
And what was that?
And Luna 21 that go near the same site a month after that.
I would have been 15 years old then and the networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) stopped covering the Apollo missions for the last few and I wasn't to happy about that. Though, they did start covering the Shuttle lunches a few years later. Had to wait till I'm 62 to see this one. Better late then never, they say.
puttesla intxtbks I would of been 11 and couldn't and still don't understand why that fickle species called human beings lost interest in the appollo missions. I remember appollo 11 covered on bbc tv with James Burke and the ill fated appollo 13 return but missed out on this. Well better late for me too. Absolutely incredible!! How on earth do people still believe it was one big hoax. Crazy
@@juliaread2003 Yep, and why did they just stop the moon missions? We were suppose to set up bases there and were to all have robots doing are house work and cooking by 2000 and also all have aircars.
puttesla intxtbks It still baffles me and I think there were many, many, reasons why these events didn't pan out by 2002. We all know that the budget was withdrawn as there was unfortunately more pressing and urgent issues on planet earth that needed to be sorted out. The lack of interest with the public certainly didnt help as they complained that it was a waste of money. Also it is still an extremely dangerous mission to get to the moon and that is why the guys who achieved this were incredibly brave beyond words who should be looked up to Not ridiculed and branded fakers by these disgraceful relentless hoax theroists.