Flown Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist page

This is page 7-8 of the Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist, used on the lunar surface during the last lunar landing mission. The other side of this is page 7-7.

I find this particular checklist page fascinating because it details the last sleep period that humans enjoyed on the lunar surface. Scheduled to begin at 174:39 hours into the mission, the crew status report notations (made on the surface inside Lunar Module America) indicate that Commander Gene Cernan slept 5 hours and Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmidt slept 6 hours.

Click the image and note the smudges of lunar dust on the checklist page.

In this photo of the Apollo 17 crew taken prior to the mission, you can see the many cue cards and checklists that will be taken aboard the spacecraft. Interesting, the lunar surface checklist (with black writing on the edge) is opened to this very page.

Comments

[Jason Rubin]

Beautiful piece David. Enjoy it.

[Pat]

Sir I have a checklist page from the same Apollo 17 lunar surface checklist. Mine has notations on it which correspond to communication between the crew and Houston as verified from the voice transcriptions. I will be going to spacefest to show it to Cernan to see if he can tell me if any of it is his handwriting. Have you any info about the notations on your page as to whose writing it is? Thanks for your response.

[David Meerman Scott]

Hi Pat.

I'm told the writing in mine is in Jack's handwriting. But you should definitely ask Gene!

Enjoy your piece.

David

[Pat]

David, FYI I did show it to Cernan and he found it very interesting. He said the writing was not his so it had to be Schmitt's. He also notated that this was written on the moon by Schmitt on a picture of the page I had him look at.

[David Meerman Scott]

Pat, that's awesome. Thanks for letting me know.