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Pt. 1 of 2
Night shots Apollo 17 on launch pad.  VS astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans board Apollo; CUs astronauts in suits.  Excellent night shots Apollo on launch pad.  Titles.
10:31:05  INT top of gantry as it moves away from sealed rocket.  Night shots Apollo on launch pad; voice over Houston Control "we have a cut off at T- 30 secs".  Dr Rocco Petrone explains why the "sequencer" stopped the launch; shows interiors of mission control - WS across bank of control panels / monitors - CUs men working, talking into headsets etc.
10:32:10  Excellent night shots of 07Dec72 launch.  Leaving Earth orbit.
10:33:10  Command Module America moves into dock with lunar Module Challenger.  Interiors Mission Control room; launch simulation of Skylab - run through by Don Puddy? for future project.  Dr Christopher Kraft re: Skylab.
10:34:37  10Dec72  Apollo 7 in orbit round the moon - Good shot.  11Dec72 Cernan & Schmitt enter lunar module.  Lunar module undocks - views from window of moon's surface.  CU Houston controller.  PoV Moon's surface approaching - v/o reads altitude.  "The Challenger has landed!".
10:38:00  Challenger on surface of moon - astronauts on surface of moon; shot of moon rover - exploration vehicle.  Astronaut plants US flag - Good.  Interiors mission control.  Schmitt carrying scientific experiments package.
10:38:53  Houston - scientists watching.  Astronauts leaping across Moon's surface - setting up experiments - drilling into surface of moon intercut with shots of scientists at mission control watching monitor, including piece to camera by Dr David Strangeway about experiments.
10:41:07  Good shots astronauts on moon's surface & singing "I was strolling on the moon one day" as they return to the module.  Engineers working on Apollo/Soyuz joint mission - includes piece to camera by Dr Rocco Perone and animation Apollo/Soyuz.
Space Race; 1972; Moonlanding; Eleventh & Final Manned Mission;
[NB  Sound quality poor.]  Cont. on 221035-04

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