Apollo 17 Lunar Plaque
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The last Apollo plaque, modest and hopeful in calling these the first explorations; a fine echo of Apollo 11’s, but an echo, with a slightly stiffer wish for peace.
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Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
The last plaque an Apollo crew left on the Moon, fixed to the ladder of the lunar module Challenger in the valley of Taurus–Littrow in December 1972. Between the two hemispheres of Earth sits a small round picture of the Moon itself. The word to notice is ‘first’: the people who wrote it expected the exploration to be continued by others, and said so in steel.
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- Rights
A work of NASA, the United States space agency, and so a US federal government work, which is not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105).
Checked for the United States as of 11 October 2026.
- Source
NASA Image and Video Library, S72-55169
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
Chinese: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-008003
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Full record
- Title
- Apollo 17 Lunar Plaque
阿波罗 17 号月面铭牌 - Author
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (founded 1958)
- Date
- December 1972
- Form
- Verse
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Transcribed from NASA photograph S72-55169, a replica of the plaque
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.