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Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ronald E. Evans says goodbye to his wife Jan as he and astronauts Eugene Cernan, right, and Harrison Schmitt, in rear, leave the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building in route to the launch pad. In the background is astronaut Alan Shepard greeting Mrs. Barbara Cernan, wife of the Mission Commander. Apollo 17 will be NASA's sixth and last manned lunar landing mission in the Apollo program.