Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2009. Part of Apollo 40 years series. Photograph. Very good. Format approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Image size is approximately 6 inches by 7.25 inches. The caption reads: Eugene A. Cernan Commander Apollo 17 salutes the flag on the lunar surface during extravehicular activity EVA on NASA's final lunar landing mission. The Lunar Module Challenger is in the left background behind the flag and the Lunar Roving Vehicle LRV is also in the background behind him. Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched on December 7 1972 with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the final manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. While Evans remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module Cernan and Schmitt spent just over three days on the moon in the Taurus-Littrow valley and completed three moonwalks taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments. The landing site was chosen with the primary objectives of Apollo 17 in mind: to sample lunar highland material older than the impact that formed Mare Imbrium and investigate the possibility of relatively new volcanic activity in the same area. Cernan Evans and Schmitt returned to Earth on December 19 after a 12-day mission. Apollo 17 is the most recent manned Moon landing and was the last time humans travelled beyond low Earth orbit. The mission broke several records: the longest moon landing longest total extravehicular activities moonwalks largest lunar sample and longest time in lunar orbit. The Apollo program also known as Project Apollo was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module LM on July 20 1969 and walked on the lunar surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module CSM and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972 with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. Apollo used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program which consisted of Skylab a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973-74 and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds 382 kg of lunar rocks and soil to Earth greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's subsequent human spaceflight capability and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight including avionics telecommunications and computers. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
Paperback / softback. New. Title 12 presents regulations governing banking procedures and activities of the Comptroller of the Currency the Federal Reserve System the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation the Export-Import Bank Office of Thrift Supervision Farm Credit Administration and the National Credit Union Administration. It also contains regulations pertaining to other types of banking operations. Additions and revisions to this section of the code are posted annually by January. Publication follows within six months. paperback
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Claitor's Pub Division 10/1/2019 12:00:01 A. paperback. Very Good. 1.9685 in x 9.0157 in x 6.1024 in. Bumps on corners Claitor's Pub Division paperback
Bookseller reference : mon0000647068 ISBN : 1640246665 9781640246669
1983. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Slightly creased cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Edition 1983. Different publisher. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. paperback
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1983. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Traces of creases on the cover. Signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Dog-eared pages. Edition 1983. Different publisher. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. paperback
Bookseller reference : E-609-159 ISBN : 1601750404 9781601750402
Claitor's Law Books and Publishing 2016-07-01. 2016. Used - Very Good. A copy that may have been read very minimal wear and tear. May have a remainder mark. Claitor's Law Books and Publishing unknown
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