My photographs of the Apollo 17 mission captured from television broadcasts


Astronaut Schmitt Carrying ALSEP	Astronaut Cernan Saluting The American Flag

Astronaut Cernan Working Near The Lunar Rover	Cernan And Schmitt Sample A Boulder

Apollo 17 Astronaut Collecting Rocks	Apollo 17 Astronaut With Lunar Experiment

Apollo 17 Astronaut On His Knees Near Challenger	Apollo 17 Astronauts At Work Near Lunar Module

With the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, America closed out man's first exploration of another celestial body.

During the Apollo 17 mission I followed the EVAs using a NASA publication titled "On The Moon With Apollo 17." Receiving that publication was a huge surprise to me. My mom had written off to NASA to request a copy of it without me knowing that it was even available. I was thrilled when it arrived in the mail before the mission.

For Apollo 17, I again captured images from the mission off of our black and white television. I also recorded audio with a cassette recorder. This was also the first mission that I had upgraded to a new method of photography. I had saved my money and purchased a Super 8 movie camera. I recorded movies of the moon walks.

On these journal pages for Apollo 17, you can view some of the still photographs that I captured. Credit for all photos on this page is mine.