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Astronaut Harrison Schmitt working next to Tracy's Rock in the Taurus–Littrow valley on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The South massif is visible to the right. Tracy's Rock, known as Split Rock or the Station 6 Boulder in the scientific literature, is a large boulder on the Moon which was visited by the Apollo 17 crew on December 13, 1972 at their Taurus-Littrow landing site.
A popular belief is that Cernan wrote his daughter's initials on a rock on the Moon, Tracy's Rock. The story, and Cernan's relationship with his daughter, was later adapted into "Tracy's Song" by pop-rock band No More Kings. The story is inaccurate, as Cernan wrote her initials in the dust, not on a rock.
[2] [10] [11] However, Gene Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 mission, stated in an interview for the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal that in advance of the mission, he had named a crater after the nickname that his daughter used for one of her grandfathers. That nickname was "Poppie".
NASA announced Monday that the former U.S. astronaut passed away, surrounded by his family, at the age of 82.
Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle , as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon.
Gene Cernan: Divorced 1981 Martha Horn (1957) Roger B. Chaffee: Married until his death in the 1967 Apollo 1 accident Patricia Finnegan (1957) Michael Collins: Married until her death in 2014 Lo Ella Irby Walter Cunningham: Divorced Harriet Hamilton Donn F. Eisele: Divorced 1968 Faith Clark Theodore Freeman: Married until his death in 1964 ...
Authorities alleged the so-called Pom-Pom Mom attempted to hire the hitman to bump off 38-year-old Verna Heath so her daughter Shanna could win a spot on the cheerleading squad.
Here, he and Gene Cernan became the first to fly an Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles (fourteen kilometres). In 1975, Stafford was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) flight, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission.