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heng44 | Apollo-17 astronauts Gene Cernan (yellow jacket) and Jack Schmitt are seen during their final geologic field exercise on 2-3 November 1972 at Sunset Crater National Monument and the Cinder Lake Crater Field just northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. They are about to enter a canvas simulation of the Lunar Module ascent stage, to practice describing their surrounding as seen from the same height above the surface as in a real LM. The snow-covered San Francisco Peaks are prominent in the background. Ed Hengeveld |
Larry McGlynn | Love Cernan's pants. I seem to remember something about stripes and checks. The orange flight jacket just adds a finishing touch. |
heng44 | Jack Schmitt made some tongue-in-cheek comments about a similar photo when he visited The Netherlands a few years ago. He said he suspected Cernan's taste for clothes had something to do with him being a Navy pilot... |
MCroft04 | This looks like the Lunar Module ascent stage mock up described in the book by Donald Beattie "Taking Science to the Moon". Can you confirm? |
heng44 | I can't 100% confirm that, but it seems likely. There were similar mockups during geologic training for other missions. I believe I saw the Apollo 16 backups using one on Mark Gray's DVD set. |
ea757grrl | Cernan's pants remind me of that cartoon where the character was wearing a jacket in the same pattern as the wallpaper, and as he walked, the pattern on his jacket moved to match the wallpaper.... |
trajan | And is it just me, or is Gene on stilts? |
ejectr | ...and the long hair over the ear non Navy regulation haircut. |
dss65 | Navy regulations, nothing! That wouldn't have passed my public high school's dress code! (I know -- I ran afoul of it more than once.) |
mjanovec | Consider this a rare instance in which a geologist is the most smartly-dressed person in a photo. |
AstronautBrian | Although Schmitt's pants are much more tolerable than Cernan's, bright white pants today would not be a high point of fashion, either. Man sometimes I am glad I missed the 70's and too young to care about the 80's. |
thump | With the knit stocking caps, they look like they could be two of the four Monkees... |
divemaster | I didn't realize that the LM had a back door! Cernan is seen wearing those same pants while driving the 1G rover in a slide that Schmitt uses during one of his lectures. He mentions his fashion sense. |
Paul23 | I think Cernan demonstrates the very dictionairy definition of getting dressed in the dark! |