APOLLO XVII EMBROIDEERED PATCH~4" DIAMETER~CERNAN~LAST MAN ON MOON~EVANS~SCHMITT

Description

Beautiful Apollo XVII embroidered patch that is about 4" in diameter.
From Wikipedia:
Apollo 17
(December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of
NASA
's
Apollo program
, the most recent time humans have set foot on the
Moon
or traveled beyond
low Earth orbit
. Commander
Gene Cernan
and Lunar Module Pilot
Harrison Schmitt
walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot
Ronald Evans
orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon, selected in place of
Joe Engle
with NASA under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a
biological experiment containing five mice
carried in the command module.
Mission planners considered two primary goals in selecting the landing site: to sample
lunar highland
material older than
Mare Imbrium
and to investigate the possibility of relatively recent
volcanic activity
. They thus selected
Taurus–Littrow
, where formations that had been viewed and pictured from orbit were thought to be volcanic in nature. Since all three crew members had backed up previous Apollo lunar missions, they were familiar with the Apollo spacecraft and had more time for geology training.
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