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Gene Cernan's Speedmaster
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SpeedyPhill
·So far Apollo 17 was the last manned lunar landing mission... It's known Cernan wore his older 105.003 Speedmaster as a good luck charm.
Eugene Cernan on the Moon = Speedmaster on black velcro over the suit ( Speedmaster on JB Champion steel mesh underneath the spacesuit)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157658976934006/page2
Eugene Cernan on the Moon = Speedmaster on black velcro over the suit ( Speedmaster on JB Champion steel mesh underneath the spacesuit)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157658976934006/page2
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Omegafanman
·So far Apollo 17 was the last manned lunar landing mission... It's known Cernan wore his older 105.003 Speedmaster as a good luck charm.
Eugene Cernan on the Moon = Speedmaster on black velcro over the suit ( Speedmaster on JB Champion steel mesh underneath the spacesuit)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/72157658976934006/page2
It shows he was confident with the strap. If the watch came loose during an EVA there would be no way to rectify that / I imagine it would be a distraction to have something loose inside the arm of the pressure suit next to your skin. Maybe the inner lining of the suit is such a close fit there is not much room for movement in the unlikely event a watch strap did break or come loose. Thanks for the extra info and the link.
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SpeedyPhill
·Apollo 17 summary
Commander Cernan (105.003 NASA #28) + (105.012-66 NASA #67)
LMP Schmitt (105.012-66 NASA #65)
CMP Evans (105.012-66 NASA #61) + ( ? 145.012-67 personal ) using the Heat Flow Experiment equipped with 145.022-69
Evans also flew his personal Rolex GMT master 1675 (serial 2448718) in his Personal Preference Kit, which was taken to the lunar surface aboard LM "Challenger" in December 1972
Commander Cernan (105.003 NASA #28) + (105.012-66 NASA #67)
LMP Schmitt (105.012-66 NASA #65)
CMP Evans (105.012-66 NASA #61) + ( ? 145.012-67 personal ) using the Heat Flow Experiment equipped with 145.022-69
Evans also flew his personal Rolex GMT master 1675 (serial 2448718) in his Personal Preference Kit, which was taken to the lunar surface aboard LM "Challenger" in December 1972
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TLIGuy
·Couldn’t confirm whether #28 made it to the lunar surface underneath the suit or was left behind in the LM but NASA photo AS17-145-22224 shows a hint of a JB bracelet on Cernan's wrist following EVA2, after removal of gloves/helmet, and before EVA suit removal.
Always fun to find a new nugget of information buried in the mission transcripts.
CREDIT - Apollo 17 in Real-Time
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pix98
·gold mine!
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TLIGuy
·48 years ago today the last Speedmasters on the moon deserves a bump. /nafap
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Texas Toast
·“Not another f*ing aerospace post?!?”
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TLIGuy
·/not another f’ing astronaut post
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worldwidewes
·For those interested, here's a great video about NASA's last trip to the moon, which Cernan captained. It's a great video:
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Geme81
·beautiful thread and very interesting information on the moonwatch. In case you didn't look at "the last man on the moon" please take a look, it's the Cernan's history up to the Apollo 17. Wonderful beacause there was him telling at the age of aroung 80 about his spece history.
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SpeedyPhill
·Remembering NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan
2017, January 16 US Navy Captain, Naval aviator, Omega ambassador, Officer & Gentleman Gene Cernan, who as the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972 became known as the "last man on the moon," passed away on Monday January 16, 2017.
Aged 82, he flew three spaceflight missions and already on his first mission 1966 Gemini IX, conducted a spacewalk. The NASA-issued n° 28 Omega Speedmaster chronograph he wore on that mission became his "lucky charm" wrist watch.
During Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 Cernan wore it on his inner lefthand wrist underneath the spacesuit, as another NASA-issued n° 67 Omega Speedmaster 105.012-66 on a long black velcro was strapped over the left forearm of his Apollo 17 A7LB space suit.
In 2019, in another marketing coup, Omega made a tomographic scan of the 321 movement of Cernan's NASA n° 28 Speedmaster in order to base their new "321" movement Speedmaster on that of the " Last Man on the Moon ".
The NASA-issued Speedmaster n° 28 is currently on display in the Omega museum in Bienne - Switzerland.
(Photos: NASA/US Navy/MoonwatchUniverse)
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2017, January 16 US Navy Captain, Naval aviator, Omega ambassador, Officer & Gentleman Gene Cernan, who as the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972 became known as the "last man on the moon," passed away on Monday January 16, 2017.
Aged 82, he flew three spaceflight missions and already on his first mission 1966 Gemini IX, conducted a spacewalk. The NASA-issued n° 28 Omega Speedmaster chronograph he wore on that mission became his "lucky charm" wrist watch.
During Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 Cernan wore it on his inner lefthand wrist underneath the spacesuit, as another NASA-issued n° 67 Omega Speedmaster 105.012-66 on a long black velcro was strapped over the left forearm of his Apollo 17 A7LB space suit.
In 2019, in another marketing coup, Omega made a tomographic scan of the 321 movement of Cernan's NASA n° 28 Speedmaster in order to base their new "321" movement Speedmaster on that of the " Last Man on the Moon ".
The NASA-issued Speedmaster n° 28 is currently on display in the Omega museum in Bienne - Switzerland.
(Photos: NASA/US Navy/MoonwatchUniverse)
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