Harrison Schmitt View of the mission commander Eugene Cernan with the last lunar flag and Earth in the background Apollo 17, 7-19 December 1972 Large format colour photograph, 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16 in), [modern reprint of NASA photo no AS17-134-20387], INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Gene Cernan, Apollo XVII" Footnotes: Having deployed the flag Cernan remarks: "(...) this has got to be one of the most proud moments of my life. I guarantee you (...) Houston, I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but this flag has flown in the MOCR (Mission Operations Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston) since Apollo 11. And we very proudly deploy it on the Moon, to stay for as long as it can, in honor of all those people who have worked so hard to put us here and to put every other crew here and to make the country, United States, and mankind, something different than it was." (mission transcript https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.alsepoff.html)
Harrison Schmitt View of the mission commander Eugene Cernan with the last lunar flag and Earth in the background Apollo 17, 7-19 December 1972 Large format colour photograph, 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16 in), [modern reprint of NASA photo no AS17-134-20387], INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Gene Cernan, Apollo XVII" Footnotes: Having deployed the flag Cernan remarks: "(...) this has got to be one of the most proud moments of my life. I guarantee you (...) Houston, I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but this flag has flown in the MOCR (Mission Operations Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston) since Apollo 11. And we very proudly deploy it on the Moon, to stay for as long as it can, in honor of all those people who have worked so hard to put us here and to put every other crew here and to make the country, United States, and mankind, something different than it was." (mission transcript https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.alsepoff.html)
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