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Gene Cernan’s first words were “As I step off at the surface of Taurus-Littrow, I’d like to dedicate the first steps of Apollo Seventeen to all those who made it possible.”
Traverse Map
Setting up the Flag
Testing the Rover
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Gene had a deadlock visual on the landing site. He knew exactly where he was, and the LM had become part of him, responding to his wishes as well as his touch on the controls as they lowered closer to the surface.
View of the Landing site from the LM
Crater Galois at the far side terminator
Landing Site at Taurus-Littrow
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Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380 mm of Mercury. With the drop in cabin pressure all the animal test subjects died. It would have killed any Cosmonaut not wearing a spacesuit.
Proton-K with 7K-L1
Zone 6 mission profile
Zond 6 Double-dip reentry
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The first attempt for a Zond 4 follow-up launched on April 22. It failed when the Launch Escape System sent an erroneous abort command at T+260 seconds and shut down the Proton booster’s second stage. The escape rocket fired and pulled the descent module to safety.
Zond 5
Zond 5 Recovery Indian Ocean
Scientist observing lunar Tortoises
