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Apollo 17 (AS-512) The Last Man On The Moon
The splashdown and recovery of the Apollo 1 7 crew marked the end of the Apollo flight program. The
mission plan was for the spacecraft to land in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow region near the rim of the
Serenitatis Basin, which seemed to have all the elements geologists would want to explore in this final
mission. Cinder cones and steep-walled valleys with large boulders at their base presented the possibility
of sampling both young volcanic rock from depth and older mountainous wall material at the same loca-
tion. Thus, the setting for the Apollo 17 landing was a unique place in which to carry out many investiga-
tions and to return lunar materials that could aid in answering many fundamental questions.
A set of five stamps from the Republica Centrafricaine all by different artists. The 1 OOF stamp proof is
signed by Jumelet and depicts the LM blasting of from the Moon - a set of three proofs in black, green
and above mauve. The two stamps below and the two proofs on the next page make up the set.
