Apollo 17
Photography index
70-mm magazine SS - AS17-162-24035 to 24106

Portrait on Gene Cernan in the Command Module during the outbound trip.

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Food package.

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Portrait of Jack Schmitt in sunglasses during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Gene Cernan, apparently asleep during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Ron Evans during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Ron Evans at work during the outbound trip.

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Ron Evans takes a drink during the outbound trip.

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Astronaut legs and feet during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Jack Schmitt during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Jack Schmitt during the outbound trip.

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View of gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Ron Evans mentions this photo and the next one at about 41:15 (mission time from planned launch time) and refers to them as frames 16 (24047) and 17 (24048).

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View of gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Ron Evans mentions these two shots at about 41:15 (mission time from planned launch time) and refers to them as frames 16 (24047) and 17 (24048).

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Portrait of Gene Cernan, apparently asleep, during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Gene Cernan during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Jack Schmitt during the outbound trip.

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Portrait of Jack Schmitt during the outbound trip.

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Ron Evans (left) and Gene Cernan pose in the Command Module during the outbound trip.

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Forward (tunnel) hatch in the command module during the outbound trip. The crew removed the hatch at 4 hours 20 minutes 53 seconds after earth launch (7:00:53 mission time, relative to the planned launch time) so that Gene could inspect the docking latches to make sure the LM and CSM were firmly tied together. Because prior frames on this magazine appear to show Cernan during a rest period and because the next picture (24055) was taken during a LM inspection, 24054 was probably taken after the second time the hatch was removed, at about 39 hours 48 minutes after earth launch (42:28 mission time, relative to the planned launch time).

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View thru the tunnel from one spacecraft to the other during a LM inspection, probably at about 40 hours after earth launch (42:40 mission time relative to the planned launch time).

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View of the heat-flow experiment in the Command Module, which Ron Evans mounted on the instrument panel at about 45 hours 26 minutes after earth launch (48:06 mission time relative to the planned launch time). At about 45 hours 48 minutes (48:28 mission time), Ron was told that the experiment Principal Investigator wanted a picture of the mounting. CapCom requested that Ron use magazine SS (162), a strong indication that this picture was taken as a result of that request.

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Side view of the heat flow experiment, with Ron Evans watching it in action.

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At 26 hours 7 minutes, 42 seconds (28:47:42 mission time relative to the planned launch time), Jack Schmitt tells Houston that he took four photographs of the developing zero-g convection pattern that resulted from the application of heat to the cell on the left. He took the photographs at twenty-second intervals. This is the first of those pictures, which Jack refers to as frame 26. Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) movies were also taken.

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Second photograph of the developing convection pattern in the lefthand cell. Taken about 20 seconds after 24058.

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Third photograph of the developing convection pattern in the lefthand cell. Taken about 20 seconds after 24059.

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Fourth photograph of the developing convection pattern in the lefthand cell. Taken about 20 seconds after 24059.

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Additional photograph of the convection pattern in the lefthand cell.

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Diagonal view of the heat flow experiment from the right, with the convection pattern still visible in the lefthand cell.

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Portrait of Gene Cernan shaving during the outbound trip, possibly the one he talked at about 63 hours 04 minutes after earth launch (65:44 mission time relative to the planned launch time).

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Portrait of Ron Evans shaving during the outbound trip.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip, almost certainly taken by Jack Schmitt at about 65 hours 24 minutes after earth launch (68:04 mission time relative to the planned time of launch) , as mentioned in the caption to 24072, below. Taken at f/4 with a polarizer filter vertical.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Taken at f/4 with a polarizer filter horizontal.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Taken at f/2 with a polarizer filter vertical.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Taken at f/4 with a polarizer filter horizontal.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Taken at f/8 with a polarizer filter vertical.

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View of the gibbous Earth during the outbound trip. Taken at f/8 with a polarizer filter horizontal.

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At 65 hours 24 minutes after earth launch (68:04 mission time relative to the planned time of launch), Jack Schmitt tells CapCom Bob Parker, "Okay, Bob, we're getting ready for the ALFMED. I just took a red-filter and a blue-filter pictures, - On frame 41 now, with a 35-millimeter - pictures of the Earth. And I took them one stop smaller - that is, more open - than the lightmeter said, hoping to compensate for the small Earth. The Earth just barely fills the most inner - the innermost circle of the spotmeter. Also, there's a very strong band of clouds, shaped sort of like a narrow fir tree, with a base about 20 degrees of longitude west of Baja California, that extends up, I believe, into the vicinity of Hawaii. And the top terminates in a very strong northern cyclone pattern." 24072 is obviously the red-filter picture.

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View of the gibbous earth taken with a blue filter.

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Astronaut wearing ALFMED light-flash detector. He is facing left. The Apollo 17 Index of 70 mm, 35 mm, and 16 mm Photographs indicates that this is Jack Schmitt. However, the transcript at 65 hours 27 minutes 26 seconds (68:07:26 mission time relative to the planned time of launch) indicates that Ron Evans is in the center seat, with Gene Cernan beyond him in the left seat. That makes Jack Schmitt the photographer/recorder in the right seat. Jack mentions four photos of Ron Evans in the ALFMED at 69:24:40 (mission time from the planned launch time).

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Ron Evans wearing ALFMED light-flash detector.

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Underexposed view from below of Ron Evans wearing ALFMED light-flash detector.

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Similar to 24076 but better exposed.

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Jack is re-shooting the photos of Ron Evans wearing the ALFMED, starting with this side view which is focused on the ALFMED.

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Similar to 24078 but focused on the strut beyond Ron and Jack mentions in the transcript.

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View of the ALFMED from below.

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Similar to 24081 but focused on the struts on either side of Ron.

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Ron Evans with a packet of soup.

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Ron Evans with a packet of soup.

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Gene Cernan with a timeline book.

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Ron Evans with partly empty soup packet.

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Backlit food packet.

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Command Module Interior.

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Food preparation.

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Food preparation.

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Ron Evans, in his Snoopy cap, stares playfully into the camera.

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Ron Evans, in his Snoopy cap, stares playfully into the camera.

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Ron Evans with his Snoopy cap off, and floating at the top of the frame.

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Ron Evans watches his Snoopy cap float out of the frame, with only the microphones and chin strap in view.

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Food packet floating near cabin window.

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A pair of surgical scissors float in the Command Module during the trip out from Earth. Each of the crewmembers had a pair, which they used to cut open food packages.

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Ron Evans with a pair of surgical scissors in the foreground, during the outbound trip. As Jack mentions in commentary following 115:30:55, Ron lost his scissors sometime before Gene and Jack went down to the lunar surface. To keep him from going hungry while they were gone, they gave him one of their pairs.

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Debris outside CM window.

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Debris outside CM window.

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Light on CM window.

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Light on CM window.

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Rev 15. Farside terminator.

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Rev 15. McKellar.

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Rev 15. Crater Bumford, Crater Orlov.

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Rev 15. Crater Sniadecki, Crater Orlov.

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Rev 15. Crater Orlov.

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Rev 15. Crater Amici, Crater Icarus.

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