NASA-UAP-D006, Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1973

[PAGE 1] MSC -07631 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 17 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING JANUARY 1973 PREPARED BY TRAINING OFFICE CREW TRAINING AND SIMULATION DIVISION This document wil automatically become declassified 90 days from the published date NOTICE This document may be exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Infor- mation Act 5U.S.C 552 Requests for its release to persons outside the U.S Govern- ment should be handled under the provisions of NASA Policy Directive 1382.2 MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER HOUSTON,.TEXAS asa QHIDITST SIGHATOR ZB MQ FeLi DECLASSIFIED E.O 13526 Sec 3.3(a NASA Declassification Gusde Gere nerrre ppiAsA Dectetenon Gate Reviewer DateS6/2026 [PAGE 2] 2h-h EVANS CONT'D CERNAN EVANS SCHMITT after the brightness of the fireball decreased I could look back up through the rendezvous window and see what to me was kind of like a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle of the tunnel Way down the tunnel way back behind I could see the fireball The only unusual sighting I can recall during landing or recovery is when the CMP looked out the window and saw the superstructure of an aircraft carrier and said Oh we've got a tin can with us Well it was kind of foggy on the windows Transearth we had only a small crescent of an Earth and it was not feasible to do any extensive weather observations We had light flashes just about continuously during the whole flight when we were dark adapted I had one which I thought was a flash on the lunar surface That one period of time when we had the blindfolds on for the ALFMED experiment there were just no visible flashes although that evening that night before I went to sleep I noticed that I was seeing the light flashes again So it just seemed to be that one interval either side of it where the light flash was not visible to myself or to the other two crewmen