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[edit] Was this the military mission to the moon?

I heard that the last mission to the moon was a military operation... so is this one it?

-G None of the missions to the moon were military. The only experiments on board were scientific packages. In fact, the last mission was the only one with a scientist-astronaut. You may be confusing them with some of the space shuttle missions, which carried classified Department of Defense payloads (usually spy satellites, according to reports) and had little news about them released to the public, except for launch and landing times and crew members' names. (A good book that looks at such missions is "Riding Rockets" by Mike Mullane, who flew on two classified missions.)DrBear 04:01, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Older comments

EVA 4 should not be listed under Moon Walks. It definitely was not a moon walk. Although I can't find any information on what it actually was.

It was probably EVA in Lunar orbit to retrieve camers from the outside of orbiter. I remember this was done during at least one Apollo mission. JamesHoadley 19:44, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
The SIM was an external experiment/camera bay that was first introduced in Apollo 15, and was on 16 and 17. The EVA was to take out the film. Check the Apollo 15 article for more explanation and a picture. --Jkonrath 17:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


Regarding the "Okay, Jack. Let's get this mother outta here" claim: those words don't appear on the liftoff video. Were they said off-mike, or edited out of the video, or is the claim apocryphyal? Wdfarmer 19:54, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Probably the latter. NASA's lunar surface journal (http://www.history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.launch.html) had this to say about it: [According to Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham in his book "The All-American Boys" Gene's last words on the Moon were "Let's get this mother out of here." During the mission review in Santa Fe, Gene was surprised not to hear those words but what seems likely is that what he was remembering was his "Now, let's get off." at 188:01:25 and that, in later tellings, the wording changed to the more colorful version Cunningham quotes. I have discussed this matter with Andrew Chaikin, who is another aficionado of the audio tapes, and we agree on the interpretation given here. My thanks to William Bianco for reminding me about this issue.]

--Jkonrath 22:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Someone close to me spoke to Mr. Cernan at a conference a number of years ago, and states that at this conference, the astronaut attested to the colorful version of this quote. So according to the man himself, that was what he said. Ledelste 06:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plaque

"depiction of the plaque left on the moon by Apollo 17" This should either say

"The plaque left on the moon by Apollo 17."

or

"A copy of the plaque left on the moon by Apollo 17."

Which is it? Rich Farmbrough 21:52 3 March 2006 (UTC).

Good point.. reading the caption the NASA gives they say it is the plaque to be left on the moon; but they also say the date the image was taken was December 14, 1972.. which is when they left the surface of the moon.. perhaps the date is wrong? 131.111.8.98 17:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Last one off the moon?

So who was the last one off the moon? (the last one to touch it?) Armstrong was the first, so who was the last (to date)? → JARED (t)  23:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

The last person to walk on the moon was Apollo 17's commander, Gene Cernan. Andy120290 23:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mission Highlights section too short

Maybe it is just me, but it seems the section saying what they actually did at the moon is too short. This was the most ambitious manned Moon mission. There is very little about what they did during a three day stay on the Lunar surface. It needs to be expanded. Andy120290 01:29, 28 June 2007 (UTC)