Honoring the 50th Anniversary of NASA's Apollo 17 Moon Mission

Video from the channel NASA about Apollo 17, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:32. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

A commemorative NASA piece for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17, assembled from archival mission footage and audio over a musical score with no added narration.

It covers the main moments: the farewell to the crew from mission control, the countdown and the ignition of the launch, the arrival of the command module America, the emotion of one of the astronauts as he describes one of the moments of his life he feels proudest of, and the reading of the plaque commemorating the first exploration of the Moon, dated December 1972, expressing the wish that the mission's spirit of peace be reflected throughout humanity.

It closes with a reflection on the Apollo program as the beginning of deep space exploration and the possibility of a journey to Mars within a decade or toward the end of the century.