Gene Cernan takes his first steps on the moon

[@suminshizzles6951]

Geez. Another giant gone. I have grown to like his persona in all the nasa and youtube clips i watch. Sad to hear that he has now gone to another place. May it be peaceful

[@Zerebox2015-2020]

1:15 and so the moonwalk was born

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

Lol! Yes! at 1:26

[@tigertiger1699]

They say that Armstrong was the man... and he was... but when a hear Cernan talk/ about the moon/ about man and our children.... there’s is very special , such desire to share the experience... yet take ownership of the risks🌹..... he was maybe our greatest spaceman..... he saw it for the future it was... for the future of man. I hope/ feel that the commander that does the skinny branch mission for us one day in 25 generations will be of the same courage, vision and generosity. He was so very special🤔 a Commander

[@RichardCook-on3gf]

I remember his flight on Gemini 9 with Thomas Stafford and the angry alligator.

[@Dolores5000]

Thank you Eugene thank you Apollo program

[@TheWonkyAstronomer]

The image quality is so much better than from the earlier missions. Funny that Gene didn't know that you could see the ascent stage engine bell form the back of the LM. I guess most of their training was with simulators and mockups rather than the real vehicle.

[@DoggerDog37]

The image quality seems better because you're looking at 16mm film, not a TV transmission. Once they offload the rover, then all you have is rover TV, and the visual quality drops. Apollo 17 is the only one of the three J missions NOT to carry a 16mm film camera onto the surface (Jack left it in the LM the whole time). 15's surface DAC kept jamming, and 16's was successful at capturing rover transfers between stations. That's why any film of the rover driving you've ever seen is from Apollo 16.

[@DoggerDog37]

All Apollo missions carried the same 16mm DAC. Typically it was mounted in the window of the CM during transposition & docking, and also turned on from the window of the LM during lunar separation, descent, liftoff, and LOR. I believe the surface DAC footage (not the TV footage) of Apollo 14 to be among some of the best motion picture footage from the surface (if you can ignore the low framerates).

[@carltoncarn4848]

+John Murp

[@DoggerDog37]

Wonky, Dave Scott also was a bit reactive to seeing the descent stage engine bell, though for a very different reason: he crimped it! Apollo 15's landing was the roughest of them all, because of a miscue between Scott & Irwin. Scott cut the engine power a bit too soon, and they free-fell farther than all previous and subsequent landings. You can hear Irwin exclaim on impact. So when Dave got out, he told MC that he was surprised to see it, and to see that it was crimped. Of course, the hoaxtards take that as some sort of "evidence" that the whole thing was staged, but whatever.

[@richardbailey3343]

Cernan was the last but one to srep out onto the moon and the last too step off it😮

[@chad1able]

Harrison Schmitt was last man, the 12th, to step on moon. Cernan was last up the ladder

[@allgood6760]

This is ON the Moon.!🚀

[@minjicard]

I have a question as they walked in the moon there might be neil armstrong or buzz aldrins footprint there and while he is walking wouldn’t the dust cover there footprints?

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

Apollo 17 landed about 630km from the Apollo 11 landing site. Take care.

[@TheArmstrong1969]

The first EVA of Apollo 17 took place on 11 Decembrer 1972 no 14 December.

[@czarcastic1458]

In Apollo 11 the surface was so bright you could see Buz in the shadow side of the lander. In Apollo 17 the surface is so dark and you can't see squat. Strange. What happened?

[@roamerw70]

I thought the moon landing was fake:-) Or maybe some assholes who refuse science claim that. Normal people give their condolences to the last hero who walked on the Moon. My condolences.

[@hunchbacked]

You can give your condolences to him even if you don't believe he walked on the moon.

[@eelo216]

Shut the fuck up and respect him at least, disrespectful to all his work. YOU SHITHEAD

[@briandenley]

And where do you think the 800 lbs of moon rocks came from?

[@450farf]

@@briandenleyantartica or they’re fake like the moon rock neil armstrong gave to the dutch pm that turned out to be petrified wood from earth

[@czarcastic1458]

@@briandenley Antarctica

[@thomaskruse9485]

O.k. . Ich hab bis heute noch nie von ihm gehört.Allein aus fehlenden Intresse. Warum nun doch ? Wegen dem was er gemacht. Eine Nachricht für seine Tochter auf dem Mond hinterlassen.Wie konnte er sowas nur machen? Damit hat er es doch für uns andere Väter versaut.Wie sollen wir sowas übertreffen ? Allerdings geb ich auch mit etwas Neid zu, das er ein langes und wohl auch Abendteuerliches leben hatte. Möge er in Frieden Ruhen, und der Herr ihm als seinen Freund Empfangen haben.

[@djeehachedjay5535]

it seems that this movement exists also on the Moon even if it does not have the same amplitude.

[@jacobtthoronn672]

Amazing Grace

[@thatdewd]

too bad the footage was "lost". there were lots of sparklies.

[@nebtheweb8885]

Not sparkles. Those are artifacts of the color wheel used for the color camera. Its called "the rainbow effect" and still happens today in some home projectors that use a color wheel.

[@dansv1]

Wasn’t there footage from the MESA video camera?

[@dks13827]

normally yes..........not on Apollo 17

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:08 'Final' voyage to the moon?

[@lightning5702]

how did he go

[@wendelallen2539]

He was taking his first steps in a NASA moon hoax studio here on Earth.

[@SelwynRewes]

of course he was ... only a genius would know that.. he was last in the line of 12 actornauts who pretended to be walking and driving a buggy on the moon. They were paid trillions by the US government to stay silent for the rest of their lives... those that did not were quickly dispatched.. These actornauts never walked on the moon Location Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Sea of Tranquillity Apollo 12 Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Oceans of Storms (Surveyor 3) Apollo 14 Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, Littrow Crater Apollo 15 David Scott, James Irwin, Censorinus Crater Apollo 16 John Young, Charles Duke, Descartes Highlands Apollo 17 Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt. Marius Hills Apollo 18 cancelled Copernicus Crater Apollo 19 cancelled Hadley Rille Apollo 20 cancelled Tycho Crater (Surveyor 7) and these actonauts never orbited the moon Apollo 8 Frank Borman, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell Apollo 10 Tom Stafford, Apollo 11 Michael Collins Apollo 12 Dick Gordon, Apollo 13 Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, (Jim Lovell) Apollo 14 Stuart Roosa Apollo 15 Al Worden Apollo 16 Thomas Mattingley Apollo 17 Ron Evans

[@leotimtom6637]

It was taken in Cannon AFB hangars.

[@thewildcellist]

@@SelwynRewesthat's a very elaborate display of sarcasm. Kudos. 💪

[@djeehachedjay5535]

I allow myself to make a remark although I am not partisan of the conspiracy theory. I noticed that the shadow of the lunar module did not move within 15 minutes.

[@nebtheweb8885]

@Rudiger Glique Actually it is quite easy to understand. Again, you are conflating a day on earth with that of the moon. A day on the Moon is 27.32 Earth days or 655.72 hours long. All of the apollo missions landed during "lunar dawn" near the moons shadow terminator line (to keep surface temps low) which is why the shadows are long. The Sun was at a low angle (their morning) and would not change much at all during the short time they were on the moon. That is why Cernan was saying looking to the east was very hard as the Sun was right in his eyes and low on the horizon. NO landings ever took place during what we here on earth would experience as a Full Moon.

[@nebtheweb8885]

@Rudiger Glique Why? Apollo went to the moon NINE TIMES, and landed on it SIX times. It actually should have been 7 but Apollo 13 didn't get to land but did reach the moon and came straight back. There is no evidence ANYWHERE to suggest ANY of the apollo missions were faked. Every single one of them has been debunked time and time again. I've heard it all. Every single excuse put out there.

[@purvabhirajr170]

Shut up

[@piano4014]

@@nebtheweb8885 you havnt looked hard enough

[@Antny82]

Jim Lovell should have commanded the final lunar mission.

[@djeehachedjay5535]

Following my previous message: the shadow for 15 minutes on the white stone has not moved. So I wonder about the movement of the shadows.

[@apeksh3063]

The shadow of what??

[@djeehachedjay5535]

@@apeksh3063 I mean the shadow of the landing pod

[@nebtheweb8885]

@@djeehachedjay5535 Why would it move? A day on the moon is a month. They landed near the terminator line which is why there are long shadows. All missions landed during what was called "lunar dawn", The shadows would change very little the short amount of time they were there.

[@bobrunge7594]

Obviously talking out his ass because his mouth knows better.

[@piano4014]

@@nebtheweb8885 Ah yes..the shadows🤔

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

"No visual record exists of his first steps" WTF? "O-kaaaay..."

[@briandenley]

So where do you think the 800 lbs of moon rocks came from? Geologists around the world have studied them and they are very different from earth rocks.

[@Dolores5000]

I don’t like it loose either

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

So is that why they're having the first woman on the moon? Because he was the last man on the moon?

[@davidhepburn9328]

Who was the cameraman!

[@briandenley]

What a brain dead comment!

[@tubecated_development]

A two foot high man with an arm of stone, they duct-taped him to the camera mount on the lander

[@kitcanyon658]

Did you mean to ask a question? Is there a reason a grown adult doesn't know how to use the question mark punctuation symbol?

[@tubecated_development]

@@kitcanyon658 It was an unintended tell. The OP is either a troll or a conspiracy theorist. They don’t ask questions, they merely post rhetoric disguised as a ‘question’. What they actually post: “who was the cameraman!” What they think they are posting: “there can’t be a photograph! There is no cameraman! Gotcha!”

[@livinlavish111]

It's a trip to the freaking moon .. Ud think they'd get more footage :/

[@nickrulercreator]

They did! Check out Apollo17.org it's the entire mission in real time. There's also countless videos from the other missions spread all across the internet. Check out the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and Project Apollo Archive online.

[@leofloppa]

There is more footage you idiot, or can't you read the title of the fucking video that says "Gene Cernan FIRSTS STEPS"

[@briandenley]

There’s hours of footage. Do some research.

[@briandenley]

They did

[@physicalivan]

hoax forever

[@briandenley]

Dumb forever. You should have take science classes or not slept through them

[@briandenley]

Dumbass forever.

[@briandenley]

Low brow forever!

[@kimjongun2946]

You can see the sets they used getting better and the production quality as well. By the time they hoaxed Apollo 17 they had it nailed down.

[@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth]

@@ryanray6215 Hi L, hope that you are well. You wrote "Just look at those Sun shades (shadow) of that lunar module .They don't change for 15 minutes at all . That is the proof , that we never ever went to the Moon ". Personally I think that it is proof that you do not know the length of a day on the Moon. Take care.

[@jamiepeterson5843]

Nope. Apollo 17 was definitely on the moon.

[@briandenley]

Another science moron! Where do you think the moon rocks came from?

[@briandenley]

Dumber than dirt