Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing 1973

Summary

Two-page NASA document, doc number NASA-UAP-D006, titled Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing and dated January 4, 1973, prepared by the Training Office of the Crew Training and Simulation Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Signators listed include Evans, Cernan, and Schmitt, and the copy is stamped declassified under E.O. 13526. Topics include the view of a fireball through the rendezvous window during landing or recovery, the command module pilot's sighting of an aircraft carrier's superstructure, and the thin crescent Earth seen during transearth coast. The crew also reports light flashes seen almost continuously when dark adapted during the flight, and notes that across the blindfolded interval of the ALFMED experiment no visible flashes were seen by any of the three crewmen.