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Apollo 17, Rendezvous of the Command Space Module America with the Lunar Module Challenger in Lunar Orbit, December 1972. Color 8 x 10 in. photograph, red lettering on recto: AS17-145-22254, verso with "A Kodak Paper"; in this moment, Ronald Evans prepared to welcome the last men on the Moon back into the CSM for the voyage back to earth, Cernan noted, "When we got back in that Command Module, we were home. Never mind that we were in lunar orbit, it was home."
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $400-600
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Kodak, Ronald Evans, CernanJohn Dorfman
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