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Dec. 7, 1972: Apollo 17, the last manned
On this date ... mission to the moon in the Apollo
series, launched with astronauts Eugene
Dec. 4, 1962: A team at A. Cernan, commander, Ronald E.
Edwards Air Force Base, Evans, command module pilot, and
Calif., began stability Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module
and control evaluation pilot, on board. Apollo 17 was a “J-type
of the Kaman HH-43 mission” that included three days on
Huskie crash rescue the lunar surface, extended scientific
and fire suppression capability, and the use of the third Lunar
helicopter. The U.S. Air Roving Vehicle. Cernan and Schmitt
Force acquired the HH-43 landed in the Taurus–Littrow valley and
Huskie primarily for local completed three moonwalks, taking lunar
base rescue and fighting samples and deploying scientific
aircraft fires. descend. instruments. Apollo 17 was the first
mission to have no one on board who
had been a test pilot.

Dec. 8, 1949: Muroc Army
Airfield in the California
High Desert is renamed
Edwards Air Force Base
in honor of test pilot Capt.
Glen Edwards who was
killed in the 1948 crash of
the YB-49. While the crash
claimed the lives of five
crewmembers, Edwards
was the only one with a
link to California, having
moved to Lincoln, Calif., at
age 13. A ceremony was
held at the base to mark
Dec. 4, 1965: Gemini 7 is launched. Gemini 7 was a 1965 crewed spaceflight the name change, but the
in NASA’s Gemini program. It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the 12th crewed plaque misspelled Edwards
American spaceflight, and the 21st crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights first name and had to be
and X-15 flights above the Kármán line. The crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent replaced at a later date. The
nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. Their spacecraft was the passive base of the plaque reads
target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A. “A pioneer of the Flying
Gemini 7 held the record for the longest space flight until Soyuz 9 in June 1970, and Wing in the western skies,
was the longest crewed space flight in U.S. history until the Skylab 2 mission of May with courage and daring
and June 1973. unrecognized by himself.”

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