The Apollo Experience: Apollo 17 - Part One (NASA Documentary) | Timeline

four three two one ignition sequence has started [Music] god [Music] phyto go go go it's a no-go bagel I live it we got to get down eagle beginning god created the heaven in the earth and God said let there be light and there was light [Applause] [Music] right now Cory continue is really out in his world I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out [Music] dear [Music] the space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind more important [Music] so difficult or expensive to accomplish [Music] [Applause] of course when I was selected for the program I had very high aspirations of flying a lunar landing but Apollo at that time when Germany was going on although it was in existence and in work for those of us who were very deeply involved in Germany was still quite a step away I used to give a talk now and two different groups throughout the country and talk about someday we're going to walk on a surface not just go there but walk on the surface of the Moon and I believe that even though I thought it hard to believe myself I did believe it because I believed in what I was doing but I turned around one day and I found out gee I was one of those guys who was walking in space and with a little luck and God willing I'll be one of those guys who's gonna walk on the surface of the Moon and even having done some of this it's still almost unrealistic to me [Music] inspire the fact that I've had a chance to fly a couple times I've been close to them when I haven't made that moon landing and believe me it's no easier today than they weren't a past and certainly they're not for crews never made that lunar landing before [Music] [Music] I think just like everybody else people who fly with me and after me bring very special experience the program experience gathered generally prior to becoming an astronaut and then added to while they have been an astronaut my experience just happens to be in the field of geology and in particular and the observation of materials of the earth as they exist in the field that's what basically a field geologist does in the case of exploring the far frontiers of space a geologist has an advantage because that's his livelihood and that's what he's been doing most of his life I don't feel that unusual a lot of people think of it as being unusual but it's really just another specialty hopefully we open up with this the possibilities of applying other specialists other problems [Music] Apolo 17th is what we call a Jameson series or it's a follow-on to Apollo 15 and 16 where we really sort of change the capability of the spacecraft we have more payload on this flight as a result we have quite an extensive and heavier scientific package in our spacecraft which of course means it takes a longer time to to deploy it to set it up to get it working with that in mind and to spend additional time on exploring the geological finds we hope will be in Taurus lettre our landing site we hope to spend a little bit of longer time on the lunar surface we added a lunar rover to the lunar module so that we could go further distances from the lunar module after we landed get in areas in terms of geological exploration and exploration of the moon that we couldn't get to before we've been training for about 12 months maybe slightly longer than that it's hard to remember once you get involved in this thing how long you been working on it but of course the training for any spaceflight mission begins several years before that and for me I guess the concentrated training for Space Flight began with Apollo 15 in the December of 1969 [Music] this Apollo Saturn launch control or t-minus one hour 22 minutes and Counting out of the pan that space vehicle is surrounded by searchlights producing some 225 foot candles of life and liftoff approximately 7,500 foot candles will be produced from the flame of the Saturn five engines this is almost equivalent to daylight our countdown continuing to go smoothly now as we approach the one hour mark this is Kennedy launch control some people think that because the palo 17 is the final Apollo lunar landing that it should be a spectacular some kind so someone decided that it would be a night launch well it is a night launch but it was not planned that way it really came out by accident the fact that you pick a landing site in our landing site is in a relatively remote area of the Moon in a northeast corner the launch time of day is really dictated to us nevertheless that night launch is going to be very very exciting as much so for the people who are watching it is a three of us who have the opportunity to fly this launch will be aiming Apollo 17 for the taurus littrow area of the moon named after the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey and the Austrian astronomer Metro the site is expected to yield some of the oldest and some of the youngest lunar samples returned during the Apollo flight to the moon [Music] we have a chance to complete this first phase with our inspiration and last chapters in our history movement of has the capability of writing we won't know it from 1500 years but some of the things that we were finding that were completely unexpected that we didn't plan to find will almost certainly be the most important thing the history of science inverts probably in the history of man this Apollo Saturn launch control first day second the flight of Apollo the eye of the world in the space [Music] and of the planets beyond and this generation does not intend the founder in the backwash the coming age of space we need to be a part of it we need a leader entering the final phase various elements of the team reporting ended with ergo no goes for launch first days reporting they are go rain safety they are go launch director water Cambrian has given a go for launch Apollo 17 a launch team wishes you good luck and Godspeed [Music] 25 seconds and counting we I skills oh there we go 20 seconds guidance alert the guidance system now going internal 14 13 12 11 ignition sequence start five is moving off the pad go on write down the price 50 I'm paying that the pain is gone reg assess teacher go first age looks good altitude 1.1 miles ratcheting you look great right down the line 17 years and here times and alcohol novel times they weren't they Nick that I want to know Roger crew will experience maximum g-forces of about four G's at shutdown standby for mode 1 charlie 17 coming up on first stage shutdown 17 you Senor go for orbit go for orbit Robert good job a little late but a good job Matt standing right sure felt like it [Music] we've confirmed Apollo 17 is in a near nominal orbit the translunar injection burn is targeted to last five minutes 51 seconds accelerating Apollo 17 to the required speed to get it into an orbit that will intercept the moon [Applause] fifteen you're looking great on a final status check here and here go for dear life [Music] something you said you're looking good and the thrust is go [Music] booster reports the trust looks good on the s4 be the velocity increasing up not at 26,000 feet per second beginning to climb ever more rapidly support was initiated at an altitude of about 97 nautical miles above Earth when finished spacecraft will be at about 150 miles above Earth and on its way to the Mun some two hundred thirteen thousand nautical miles away [Music] ceptin using you have a go for candy okay I go for candy okay we and we got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by over looks like before the July outruns window now but we've got the booster and is she pretty challengers just an internist our rudder I can't tell you too much Bob from the center seat other than Captain America is very intent on getting challenger at the moment yeah I'm coming in a little slow but good money time [Applause] Ron Eben's not the controls of America moving in for the docking with lunar module challenger captain Reggie this is Apollo control America and Challenger are on their own at an altitude of 13,000 nautical miles from Earth 17 to us to the crew is probably best summed up in the meaning of our patch as we designed it and as the ideas that we put into it we felt certainly another Paolo 17 in spite of the fact that it's the last flight in the Apollo program it's really not the end but or rather the beginning it's sort of a culmination of what we consider man's greatest achievements certainly in our lifetime and looking in the future these achievements and the potentials of them have literally no bounds we have the god of Apollo on our patch he represents not just the Apollo program but mankind himself represents knowledge represents wisdom and Apollo is looking out into the future he's not looking behind and he's not simply looking at the moon someplace that mankind has been but he's looking out beyond the moon and into the future we have along with him up in the corner of our Pachi a golden moon representing a golden air or space flight that we are bringing to a close now the achievements that have happened in this past decade we're not by accident America brought us where we are today in the United States of America is going to lead us into the achievements and the accomplishments of the future [Music] this is Apollo control Cernan and Schmitt have gone aboard the lunar module Challenger going through the housekeeping transfer of items from the command module into the lunar module and we'll proceed with the checklist of activating the spacecraft communication system Evans had the detail of removing the probe-and-drogue earlier but he's by his lonesome back in the command module Gordy doesn't look like I had a chance to go to church today but under the circumstances I guess it'll be okay next time he's a good father you might have put a good word in for us okay I'll do that hello you said I've gotten the mood boy is it big we're coming it right down on top of it Roger that's about right don't worry you'll miss it all right just hear you say it cuz I've got a hold to do it hello America how do you read yes turn over hello Houston is Miss America you can breathe easier America has arrived on station for the challenge ahead [Music] challenger istant here we go for undocking and septic over hey let's get on the ground now the landing site of Apollo 17 taurus littrow is and i speaking from the from the guys actually gonna fly the spacecraft to land it very very challenging it's sort of a box canyon surrounded by mountains on three sides in a landslide that comes off one of the mountains that has some rubble that is true and across some of the craters just in front of where we're going to land so from a pilot point of view it's very very challenging this is spectacular it is absolutely spectacular looking at that command aren't you America Connor come across the purpose sounds great god we've got family but we've got the course of a theme we could see the scarf we can see the light man oh I've got the great crop believe it or not used and they're all there yes better I could even say poppy right where we're gonna cut this baby down very good Fangorn oh this is absolutely spectacular sure sounds like it [Music] during the next front side pass the moment of truth challenger will descend to the surface of the Moon and touch down at the NARS literal landing site okay all flight controllers go/no-go for power decent restaurant no I don't know guys go pro go TOCOM go it's a go econ go surgeon go Capcom we're go for power decent challenger Justin here go for PDI we are going for the turbine I've got two good life baby here bitch over are we coming in Oh baby [Music] bill is good beer gets close 550 feet per second 300 feet 105 for down at five I feel good understand me they're vibrant and ass 18 me [Music] in a little bit 40 feet corner three [Music] [Music] or you'd shut down I shut down we dropped in with but we are here and if we hear her death my friends look great man opposed right on tryna had to meet fall all the way beautiful Jack are we gonna have some night boulders in it there okay the old cameras off okay challenger Houston I'm gonna hand you over to the good doctor Parker here have a good trip outside Gordie thank you you do have any work and we sure do appreciate it babe my pleasure I forget to our favorite part you play click click damn it is locked your visor did locked [Applause] [Music] commander is on the porch oh man oh man [Music] oh man I'm on the lsat as I step on the surface that taurus-littrow I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible oh my golly unbelievable unbelievable but is it brightness son how you doing jack fine Jack you lookin good beautiful guys beautiful and blows hey Jen don't lock it I'm not a lot we gotta we gotta go back there you lose the kid we're trouble [Music] Balotelli geez I think connects generations not accept this is a challenge to see a bleep footsteps might be someday a geologist a diver power I never thought I'd do geology this way [Music] the taurus-littrow site on the north eastern part of the moon at the edge of one of the large lunar basins calls rena taught us was selected as representing both a new part of the moon which we had not explored yet and having major features that would allow us to complete this first phase of lunar exploration and last chapters will in our history book that Apollo has the capability of writing those features are the edge of the strata Thomas Basin where we have a very strong possibility of finding some of the oldest if not the oldest rocks to have so far been sampled and observed on the moon and it also has the dark mantling deposit that is potentially some of the youngest volcanic rocks that we've seen on the moon and then of course there's this other thing of the unexpected and who knows what that's going to be and that's really what makes it exciting [Music] [Applause] [Music] Shabri get death nor window for now that guy yet handled doesn't know where advert I maybe even better 17 we have a picture beautiful baby okay you have to get it down to my level y'all guys are all alike agile they're twinkle toes okay [Music] the flag they're deploying is the flag that has been in the Mission Control Center here during past missions I thought if I could spray even in a breeze right there it does when you do that it'll figure you guys up down there let me tell you about the flag it's beautiful pictures it's beautiful it's got to be one of the most proud moments in my life I guarantee it [Music] [Music] have at it first I gotta finding out that fight Schmidt carrying the all set about a hundred meters east of the Lamb well gene cernan will drive out to the house upside in the rover I say their deck that looks like a big rock out there beyond earlier we believe you now oh you won't believe it ah there goes a fender oh shoot okay was it the rear fenders you know ya caught it with my hammer and it just pops right off if it wasn't for that fender I'd be ready to go makes me sort of mad a little feet to the rail is cracked off and I'm just gonna put a couple pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it see whether we can't make sure it stays because I don't want to lose it Chuck go fetch America great tape doesn't stick to our motor dust-covered fenders gene cernan taping the fender on I never thought I'd be out here doing this bad I am back if that fender stays on I'm gonna take a picture of it is I'd like some sort of mending award it's not too neat but well let's hope keep your fingers crossed and I'll be more careful around offenders okay copy that site selection in all the missions entails the utilization by NASA of a number of scientific advisory groups and the inputs of many individuals across the country scientists primary from the scientific point of view in terms of the instruments that we're going to place on a surface the landing site was picked because it gives us a tremendous network scientific instrumentation that is still active previous Apollo missions spread across the face of the moon we can see activity of earthquakes and meteor impacts and it gives us a pretty good cross-section to pinpoint where this activity is and exactly what's happening in the moon we have a window into the very early history of a planet in the near earth part of the solar system from 3.3 billion years ago back to say 4.6 billion years ago that is a history which is almost totally obscured to us on earth on the moon that's where lunar history starts and that's why it's exciting to earth scientists who have for years been trying to find out what happened to the earth in that very early time and an understanding of the processes that really affected the total distribution of materials on the earth and it's in those materials that lie our resources and the long-term understanding of the earth so that we can exploit those resources and exploit them and obviously a and now I think a much more light way than maybe we did in the past but nevertheless we must exploit them in order to preserve the civilization we used to that's reason number one a little bit involved but it is probably the primary material justification scientific justification component secondly an equally important related it's an understanding of the history the Sun and within the soils of the Moon and within the rocks of the Moon the very surface layers of them we are starting to see the effects of solar history on those materials and there is no way we could get this information on the earth are in orbit around the earth because what we see there is what's happening now what we see on the moon we can go through the record of the soil and see what has happened a hundred million years ago and up to probably at least a billion years ago in some places on the moon and if we don't understand the Sun and how it affects materials and what the history of that Sun has been as it has affected our own environment on earth it's gonna be very difficult to understand how to preserve the environment that we now know because the Sun is still the prime mover the prime force for change in the environment we have to deal with [Music] I'll buy you a couple good to started drilling to 8 foot hose for the heat flow experiment seeing that directly [Music] really working down there oh you bet your man I'm in something tough down there now if I let go of that drill and I went anchor to the ground it it throw me over the pansies it's funny how long for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay back Thank You boys yawns what the car getting down into your work Bob out they might comment until later [Music] we got a free coil we got to do truck much now we got to he broked and asked them but I feel pretty good about that then that makes me feel pretty good okay congratulate okay Bob we're about 15 meters from a 20 meter blocky Ram crater it's about three to four meters deep okay I copy that Jack very good he's going slowly though very standing the foreground features are somewhat different because they were far they're up under the hill I think that otherwise that's remarkable if you can hook your arm on the driver trying to get it right hit it on the right side it'll go this way baby there you go good man he's right there try another one don't lose that one let me get that one for you buddy I go gun oops okay bag 476 is the rock sample with a little bit of a file near it chip chip off the rock be careful down in there and it's the budget gene if I go down there that takes about 15 feet deep right did the other chip [Applause] got it okay oh look at the dark barrels in are those dark black yeah they're maybe overnight you're our fresh cursory give me an impression of church okay you want my back Jim you better make it clear to Parker that we've got to pull out yeah that's 29 1/2 minutes from now but remember they left this side a little bit late okay we coming and 17 a reminder to factor do you thinking this is only a 30-minute stop and it's about two zero minutes remaining yes sir but we got exam okay and we get those up for Christmas happy that Gareth get your after look at my after picture I'm gonna take a quote the scenario that yeah deck definitely [Music] [Music] so what I really bring as a specialty is the ability hopefully of being able to integrate what I see which in turn not only tells me what I should sample and what I should say or what is your photograph about what I see but it will lead me to other observations and this is something you gain by experience no matter what field you're in field geology aircraft line test piloting botany poetry law you name what you gain by experience is the rapid synthesis of what you're exposed to and a projection of that exposure into the next step and so I don't feel myself very unusual being a scientist because we've had specialists before and I'm really a geologist going to the moon and we got other types of scientists going on the Skylab program physicists solar physicists a medical doctor we're just gradually evolving a phase of the exploration of space where we're now trying to apply specialties to the particular problems we have to deal with I was rolling on a moon [Music] hey hey hey that's right [Music] [Music] you know I don't think we need an exerciser man I hate this done I gotta make it this matter tonight if I taped it all to nothing you got another hallelujah Deb is stable you how to look at you looks good 17 and like you to know you had a seven hour and 12 min and think of tremendous top or we might call a challenge really was [Music] a fallen control at 124 hours 23 minutes and orc challenger on the lunar surface the process of getting me a lunar module reconfigured ready for their sleep period which the flight plan that calls for them to be in about three and a half hours from now [Music] [Music] good morning challenger Rudy said look better how does it look to you okay as I step out onto the plains of taurus-littrow Apollo 17 is ready to go to work oh except in the earth okay Jojo Houston with the work done way that sleepin fix for the missing thunder John yes bent over working it out in a suit with the backup Rover good babe preciate it I'm Cal now turn the microphone over to captain count hey you know this is John what are you doing just fine you guys are doing a superb job really beautiful hey we spent some time on this fender problem and worked out a pretty simple mind that the procedure which involves essentially taking four of those lunar surface Maps taking them together with great tape so that you end up with a piece of paper about 15 inches by ten and a half inches and clamping the edges of it on top of the fender with the äôt lamp clamps it's a simple and straightforward and the beauty of it is you're only spending about two minutes in the clamping operation and it could save you up to about 12 Dustin I think maybe what do you think crews using maps to make that fender the clamps are from the optical alignment telescope lamp as you can see it's only a paper fender but the moon is real hold it right there work it look exactly what do you did he said you're good as is we're ready for you guys to go [Music] okay we are moving right now okay we're marking that the crew has started for station to the most distant of the stations more than seven kilometers away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the taurus-littrow site Apollo 17 is one where at the mountain front you'll be hearing the name South Messi for North massive as we explore that part of the moon at these fronts or mass seems there is an excellent probability because of the impact of it to form this arena Tata station we will see rocks form crushed the big emphasis there will be to see these very old rocks that will help push this history book of the motor back right up to the very earliest possible time that we can examine all potentially as long as four point four or five million years [Music] [Music] in detail they interpret texture of the fine-grained regular most of the brightest traders have a little sexual pit in the bottom which is flatline look at day you know we're really up on top this thing we're driving sixty four minutes Albert I'm afraid Park okay beautiful we're right where we wanted to be for station two and looks like a great place they Park station two is right at the base of the sound of the sea [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] seven thing if you wanna just take a meeting you might look up at the sky and mother earth the valley [Music]

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Published: Tue Feb 20 2018