OK, I found what's in this article now... On the Apollo 17 page -> The First EVA -> Flag Deployment and ALSEP Off-Load:
118:51:20 Cernan: Oh, you won't believe it. 118:51:25 Schmitt: You did it again.
[Jack is guessing that Gene hit the wrong gravimeter button.]
118:51:26 Cernan: No!! There goes a fender. 118:51:28 Schmitt: Oh, shoot! --- 118:52:06 Cernan: And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try...I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on. 118:52:13 Parker: Okay. Was
Gene Cernan, in the mission summary: "You know, it's kind of sad that in addition to all the other problems we'd have in going back to the Moon - like it's going to take twice as long as it did the first time (15 to 20 years versus 8) - I don't know that we have the mentality today to build upon what we did on Apollo. And it's sort of sad. Because if we went back again next week or next year or in another decade - which we probably won't, unfortunately, because it's going to be another generation - I don't k
There are probably full audio for this on the LSJ (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html [nasa.gov]
Craploads of imagery from all surface missions, full transcripts, and audio.
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On the Apollo 17 page -> The First EVA -> Flag Deployment and ALSEP Off-Load:
118:51:20 Cernan: Oh, you won't believe it.
118:51:25 Schmitt: You did it again.
[Jack is guessing that Gene hit the wrong gravimeter button.]
118:51:26 Cernan: No!! There goes a fender.
118:51:28 Schmitt: Oh, shoot!
---
118:52:06 Cernan: And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try...I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on.
118:52:13 Parker: Okay. Was
Re:There are probably full audio for this on the L (Score:2)
(with apologies to xkcd [xkcd.com])
Re:There are probably full audio for this on the L (Score:2)
"You know, it's kind of sad that in addition to all the other problems we'd have in going back to the Moon - like it's going to take twice as long as it did the first time (15 to 20 years versus 8) - I don't know that we have the mentality today to build upon what we did on Apollo. And it's sort of sad. Because if we went back again next week or next year or in another decade - which we probably won't, unfortunately, because it's going to be another generation - I don't k
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I really gotta get a subscription to these things. Just in case I'm worried about things crash-landing on me... on the moon.