nasa-uap-d6-apollo-17-technical-crew-debriefing-1973.pdf

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CONFIDENTIAL
MSC-07631
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

# APOLLO 17
## TECHNICAL
## CREW DEBRIEFING
## (U)

JANUARY 4, 1973

### PREPARED BY
### TRAINING OFFICE
### CREW TRAINING AND SIMULATION DIVISION

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EVANS (CONT'D) after the brightness of the fireball decreased, I could look back up through the rendezvous window and see what to me was kind of like a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle of the tunnel. Way down the tunnel, way back behind, I could see the fireball.

CERNAN The only unusual sighting I can recall during landing or recovery is when the CMP looked out the window and saw the superstructure of an aircraft carrier and said, "Oh, we've got a tin can with us."

EVANS Well, it was kind of foggy on the windows.

SCHMITT Transearth we had only a small crescent of a…