Original Apollo 17 Un-issued Appreciation Certificate with Astronauts Signatures

Description

Original Apollo 17 Un-issued Appreciation Certificate with Astronauts Signatures
This certificate doubles as an Apollo 17 mission Appreciation Certificate, and a 1972 End of the Apollo Program Appreciation Certificate
Measurements:
11 X 8 ½ inches
Condition:
Certificate exhibits a Small tear on the edge (still suitable for framing), just to the left of the Apollo XIII (13) emblem.
No folds, bends, dog ears, staining/foxing tears, or writing is present.
Graphics:
Colors, and Printing is Clear and printed on Parchment paper. Astronauts Signatures are also Excellent
Please see all attached pictures
Shipping includes a Tracking Number
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972)
was the final Moon landing mission of
NASA
's
Apollo program
, and remains the most recent time humans have traveled beyond
low Earth orbit
and also the most recent time humans have set foot on the
Moon
. Its crew consisted of Commander
Eugene Cernan
, Lunar Module Pilot
Harrison Schmitt
, and Command Module Pilot
Ronald Evans
, and it carried a
biological experiment containing five mice
.
Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 was a "
J-type" mission
that included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the use of the third
Lunar Roving Vehicle
(LRV).
Cernan and Schmitt landed in the
Taurus–Littrow
valley and completed three
moonwalks
, taking
lunar samples
and deploying
scientific instruments
. The landing site had been chosen to further the mission's main goals: to sample
lunar highland
material older than
Mare Imbrium
, and to investigate the possibility of relatively recent
volcanic activity
. Evans remained in
lunar orbit
in the
command and service module
(CSM), taking scientific measurements and photographs.
Cernan, Evans, Schmitt, and the mice returned to Earth on December 19.
Apollo 17 was the first mission to have no one on board who had been a
test pilot
;
X-15
test pilot
Joe Engle
lost the lunar module pilot assignment to Schmitt, a
geologist
. The mission included the first night launch of a U.S. crewed spacecraft and the final crewed launch of a
Saturn V
rocket. It was also the final use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose (extra
Apollo spacecraft
were later used in the
Skylab
and
Apollo–Soyuz
programs).
The mission broke several crewed spaceflight records, including the longest Moon landing, longest total lunar surface extravehicular activities (22 hours 4 minutes), largest lunar sample return (110.52 kilograms or 243.7 lb), longest time in lunar orbit (6 days 4 hours) and most lunar orbits (75).
Apollo-17 Launch:
December 07, 1972
Pad 39
Saturn-V
AS-512
High Bay 3
MLP
3
Firing Room 1
Crew:
Eugene A. Cernan, Commander
Ronald E. Evans, Command Module Pilot
Harrison H. Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot
Payload:
Apollo 17
America (CM-114) and Challenger (LM-12)
Lunar Location:
Taurus-Littrow
Lunar
Coordinates
:
20.16 degrees North, 30.77 degrees East
Lunar Surface-Time:
75hr
Landing:
December 19, 1972
Prime Recovery Ship:
USS
Ticonderoga
CVA-14
Mission Objective:
The lunar landing site was the Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area. This site was picked for
Apollo 17
as a location where rocks both older and younger than those previously returned from other Apollo missions and from the Luna 16 and 20 missions might be found.
The mission was the final in a series of three J-type missions planned for the Apollo program. These J-type missions can be distinguished from previous G and H-series missions by extended hardware capability, larger scientific payload capacity and by the use of the battery powered Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).
Scientific objectives of the
Apollo 17
mission included geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a preselected area of the Taurus-Littrow region, deploying and activating surface experiments, and conducting inflight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast (TEC). These objectives included: Deployed experiments such as the Apollo lunar surface experiment package (ALSEP) with a Heat Flow experiment, Lunar seismic profiling (LSP), Lunar surface gravimeter (LSG), Lunar atmospheric composition experiment (LACE) and Lunar ejecta and meteorites (LEAM). The mission also included Lunar Sampling and Lunar orbital experiments. Biomedical experiments included the Biostack II Experiment and the BIOCORE experiment. Evans performed a trans-Earth EVA at 20:27:40 GMT on 12/17/72 lasting 01 hour 06 minutes during which time the CMP retrieved the lunar sounder film and the panoramic and mapping camera film cassettes.