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19721990s STOCK FOOTAGE
APOLLO 17 LAUNCH AND WALK ON THE MOON. DECEMBER 7, 1972 - NASA
ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
MAN LANDING ON THE MOON FOR THE FIRST TIME. WALKING ON THE MOON'S SURFACE.

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Apollo 17 Astronauts introduction. Astronauts getting into spacecraft AND var shots of spacecraft on rocket launcher. December 7, 1972
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Pan up on Apollo 17 on rocket launcher. "Apollo 17 On the Shoulders of Giants" overlay. Launcher moving away from Rocket. USA in big red letters on Apollo 17 rocket. Quarter moon.
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CU engines, rocket boosters, on the Apollo 17. CU Rocket with "United States" and American Flag.
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WS Apollo 17 on rocket launcher, night
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DR. Rocco Petrone, Director Apollo Program speaking about Apollo 17 launch.
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WS NASA Launch Control Center, Kennedy Space Center.. Rows of people at computer work stations. Var shots technicians at work, equipment.
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Apollo 17 taking off from launchpad. Fire and flames shooting up lighting up the evening sky. Rumbling sounds.
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Darkness - silhouettes of people watching rocket launch in the distance. Yellow sky against the darkness of the night. Loud rumbling can be heard. Big white clouds of smoke as Apollo 17 launches straight up into the sky. The sun illuminating the rocket as it rises.
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Crowd shot - everyone looking up into the sky.
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Apollo 17 space ship moving quickly in dark nighttime sky. Space ship is seen as a big ball and stream of orange fire.
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Shots of planet earth POV space ship - Apollo 17
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Apollo 17 space craft floating in outer space.
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Technicians in Apollo 17 control room. Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Director, Manned Spacecraft explains to unseen interviewer the purpose of the mission and what's to come in the future.
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shots of the Moon pov spacecraft.
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Astronauts inside spacecraft
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Lunar module in outerspace. Var shots of the moon's surface from the module.
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Module landed on the moon. December 11, 1972. Iconic footage of first man to walk on the moon.
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Iconic footage of Astronaut planting the American flag on the moon.
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People in the NASA control room - all eyes in one direction, intently watching the action.
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Astronaut Schmitt carrying equipment on the Moon. He is seen walking, bouncing on the moon's surface.
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Astronaut Eugene Cernan drilling holes and planting scientific equipment on the moon. Cernan and Schmitt working together drilling holes into the hard surface. Intermittent shots of people in the Control Room on Earth watching from TV monitors.
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Astronauts walking on the moon happily singing the tune, "The Merry Merry Month of May" but changing the words. Cloudy.
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Back on Earth. Engineers from different countries examining the engines of spacecraft.
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Spacecraft floating in space, slowly orbiting around the earth's surface. Dr. Petrone talking about the Apollo- Soyuz (Soviet) joint mission - and its purpose of working together, sharing ideas and motives.
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Planet Earth, partially obscured, alone in the dark sky, pov spacecraft
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Apollo 16 Commander, John Young - Nasa Control Room
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Close up damaged fender and wheel of the Rover.
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WS Astronaut Schmitt walking on the moon.
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CU map of the moon's surface, hands pointing out particular locations.
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Various shots moon's landscape - rocky dry surface, mountainous bkgd, looking similar to snow covered mountains
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Various shots Astronauts on the moon, taking samples, interspersed with shots from Control Center.
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Astronaut Jack Schmitt falling down, bouncing around. Men in control room watching, laughing, smoking. Serious face Control Room technician smokes a cigarette.
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Great shots Astronaut Schmitt jumping, bouncing on the moon's surface, lunar background, outerspace.
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Dr. Maxime Faget, Director Engineering & Development, Manned Spacecraft Center talking from his office, holding a model space shuttle - other space shuttle models on shelf behind him, he talks about the future of space travel and exploration.
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Pan the moon's amazing barren surface - POV Astronaut on the moon.
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Astronaut's exploring the moon's surface. Taking samples to bring back to earth.
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Space orbiter. Dr. Stanley H Ward, Lunar Sounding Radar talking to unseen interviewer about the experiments on the lunar surface through the use of different equipment such as a Radiometer.
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Shuttle lift off from the moon. Challenger traveling through space, shots of the moon's surface, POV from space shuttle.
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Astronauts Cernan and Schmitt inside space shuttle. Beautiful Shots of a crescent moon POV inside the space shuttle.
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