December 19: Splashdown
After 13 days in space Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison (Jack) Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 command module Challenger parachuted to a safe splashdown at 19:20 GMT on 19 December 1972, 648 km southeast of American Samoa. The last humans to have walked on the Moon.
 Challenger makes a perfect splashdown |
 The crew arrive by helicopter aboard the rescue ship Ticonderoga |
images NASA
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This is a comment to the webmaster, I guess, about navigating Moonzoo; I was drawn to the e-mail announcement of LRO images of Apollo landing sites and views of the LM’s and related objects but there was no direct link to a specific URL or URL’s – it took me 20 minutes of link jumping to finally get to the marvelous images. If a URL such as:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html
had been provided, I would have had a much less frustrating experience. Hope someone at Moonzoo reads the blog, because I couldn’t find a “contact” link.
Hi Lynn,
The e-mail was highlighting the fact that Moon Zoo would be using these images for the duration of the Apollo 17 mini-project rather than promoting the images themselves as we wanted people to take part! We did, however, highlight some of the LRO images via the blogs and tweets. And you are right – the landing site images are indeed marvellous. You might like this article too: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html
Thanks for your prompt and thoughtful answer to my question and for the referenced URL.