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APOLLO 17 LUNAR SURFACE VIEW—LUNAR ROVER IN FRONT OF TRACY'S BOULDER

20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
New York

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APOLLO 17 LUNAR SURFACE VIEW—LUNAR ROVER IN FRONT OF TRACY'S BOULDER

Color photograph, 16 x 20 inches.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED:"'America's Challenge of Today has Forged Man Destiny of Tomorrow.' GENE CERNAN, Apollo XVII - CDR. Dec 1972."

Showing the Apollo 17 lunar rover parked in front of then named "Split Rock," while at Station Stop 6 during Apollo 17's third lunar surface exploration (EVA 3). It is now known as "Tracy's Boulder" - Gene Cernan observed Alan Bean's 1984 oil painting of the rock, and having drawn his daughter's initials in the lunar soil, commented that he wished that he had drawn them on the rock, as the photographs of the rock had become such iconic images of the Apollo 17 mission. Alan Bean then added Tracy's name to his painting, and names it "Tracy's Boulder."

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