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51 Years Ago...Apollo 17 and Speedmasters make the last trip to the Moon.

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At this very moment 51 years ago today the crew of Apollo 17 were on exploring the surface of the moon.

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46 years ago today Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were working hard on the moon.

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50 years ago today at this exact moment in time Ron Evans was conducting the heat flow experiment onboard Apollo 17.

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Interesting to see how many references there are to watches in the complete transcript.

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004:48:15 Evans What - what do you have? A zero in there? Hey, I lost my watch. Turn the AC OFF. Yes, AC is OFF. Whoops, what a beauty! What a beauty! Yes, the Earth. I can see the S-IVB it's going ...

0015:21:25 Schmitt There's plenty there. And I'll wait for your words on that. And the watch is wound.

118:29:57 Cernan I had two watches: one inside my suit which I kept on Houston time, and the other on the outside which we started - probably at 12 o'clock - when we started the EVA and could compare with the planned times in the checklists. The timeline was important, and we tried to stay with it.
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50 years ago today at this exact moment in time Ron Evans...

I just looked up Evans and saw that he died of a heart attack in 1990. Didn't know that. Jim Irwin also died of a heart attack in 1991. Dave Scott said he thought Irwin's heart was overly taxed on the moon, as he wasn't able to get to his water for hours during their strenuous geological work. So many astronauts lived into their late 80s and 90s. Sad when some went so young, including Conrad.
 
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