Gene Cernan on the moon

Gene comes bounding energetically down the mountain towards the rover. He loses his balance and falls to his knees, bounces forward on all fours, and his left foot kicks out an impressive spray of dust, perhaps 3 meters long, towards the rover camera. He rises and continues his traverse with undiminished attack.

Source: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/video17.html

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• apollo
• 17
• gene
• cernan
• moon

[RustyRazor2010]

For grins, run this vid, then mute it. Open second tab, search for "The Andy Griffith Show Original Opening 1960." Wait for que leader to run, then click back to this tab and run vid again and pretend this is Don Knots. ;)

[Laurelindo]

"I'm on the moon ♫"

"wow! I just tripped =("

"screw that, I'm on the moon, yippie! ♫"

[El135o]

Boom, right on top of that Hasselblad! Or did he catch himself just before it hit the dirt? I assume there's a lens cap.

I think he was galloping a little too happily there LOL

[pento1000]

increible como se nota q esta colgado en 0:28 la inclincacion es antinatural, haya la gravedad q haya.

[curea229]

My favorite quote from Apollo 17 after Gene says "Ok Houston, the Challenger has landed."

CAPCOM Bob Parker (in a bored voice): "Roger Challenger, that's super."

[XmegaPresident]

I think Bob was the strictest of the Apollo EVA CapComs but he lets out some humor when Gene falls at nother time.

[tracyterry]

Gene's cool! He's my fave NAVY astronaut!!!

[saigonpunkid]

damn, how do people like you think they're so smart, while not contributing anything to mankind at all.

[1stNeoSpartan]

plus he has to put very little effort, the moon has less gravity than earth.

[IamWeasel2]

he can stand like that cause of the heavy box he has on his back.