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| Apollo 17 crew-signed launch cover with the mission insignia cachet, postmarked KSC dated December 7, 1972. Signed by Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmit and Ron Evans. This was obtained from the Evans family a number of years ago and was possibly signed prior to the mission. - Heritage Auctions |
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| Apollo 17 official NASA cachet on cover with a Kennedy Space Center machine cancel. Cover signed by Harrison Schmitt, Gene Cernan and Ron Evans. |
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| Apollo 17 Heritage Crafts cachet launch cover with a Kennedy Space Center machine cancel dated December 7, 1972, signed by Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt. |
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| Australia Honeysuckle Creek tracking station was a NASA Earth station in Australia near Canberra, which played an important role in supporting Project Apollo. The station was opened in 1967 and closed in 1981. The Honeysuckle Creek station, a 26 meter dish and now decommissioned, is most famous for being the antenna which received and relayed to the world the first historic TV images of astronaut Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon on 21 July 1969. Apart from the television pictures they provided, Honeysuckle Creek and Tidbinbilla had voice and telemetry contact with the lunar and command modules. |
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| 1972 Apollo 17 moon landing cover with Houston postmark, December 11, 1972 signed by Ron Evans, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. This multicolor cover was made from a lunar chart with an Apollo 17 Mission logo at left. - RegencyStamps |
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| Apollo 17 lift-off from the moon on December 14, 1972. Above covers postmarked at Houston. |
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| Apollo 17 lift-off from the moon. Above cover postmarked at Cape Canaveral on December 14, 1972, signed by Gene Cernan. |
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| Photo: A recovery helicopter hovers over the Apollo 17 command module, while USS Ticonderoga stands by. |
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| Beck printed cachet cover B884 with USS Ticonderoga hand cancel, signed by Gene Cernan. |
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| Apollo 17 USS Ticonderoga recovery ship cover with Beck rubber stamped cachet, signed by Ron Evans, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmit. The USS Ticonderoga hand cancel, December 19, 1972, was postmarked on shore. |
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| Apollo 17 Captain's cover with a Beck rubber stamped cachet, hand cancelled USS Ticonderoga, December 19, 1972. |
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| Apollo 17 Captain's covers with USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, December 20, 1972, the day after recovery. The Post Office on board was closed on 19th, thus the first available postmark on board was 20th. The bottom cover signed by NASA Recovery Team Leader, Donald Stullken. |
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| Cover with USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, December 20, 1972, signed by recovery crew: Steve O'Brien, Jerry Turley, Don Thompson, "Boh" Bohannon, Wayne Lazarn, Tim Keeney, Terry May, Jon Smart. |
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| Apollo 17 recovery cover flown via helicopter, machine cancelled on return to port, December 22, 1972. |
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| Apollo 17 recovery team signed cover, machine cancelled on return to port, December 22, 1972. |
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| Photo: Apollo 17 crew, Ron Evans, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt at their last press conference on Jan 5, 1972. |
