Apollo 17, Close-up of the Repaired Lunar Roving Vehicle Driven by Schmitt, December 1972.

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Apollo 17, Close-up of the Repaired Lunar Roving Vehicle Driven by Schmitt, December 1972. Color 8 x 10 in. photograph with red lettering on recto: AS17-137-20979, "A Kodak Paper" on verso; the rear fender of the LRV was knocked off during EVA-1, kicking up clouds of dust; the astronauts, following the suggestion of astronaut John Young at Mission Control, fashioned a fender out of lunar maps and clamps from the optical alignment telescope.
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $400-600


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