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The Apollo 17 Saturn V awaits launch.
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Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch
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Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon (now known as "The Blue Marble photo").
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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt falls while on a Moonwalk.
Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.
Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA. Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor.
Schmitt stands next to a large boulder during EVA 3.
Cernan in the lunar module after EVA 3.
Schmitt in the lunar module after EVA 3.
Apollo 17's Lunar Module blasts off and leaves the Moon.
Evans performs an EVA before returning home.
The plaque left on the Moon by Apollo 17.
A model of the UV spectrometer used to take the first accurate measurements of the constituents of the Moon's atmosphere.
Landing site, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009.
Narrow-angle image of the LM Challenger descent stage surrounded by LRV tracks and footprints, as
- Imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011.
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