Talk:Apollo 17

message: What they did between EVA's? how they serviced and maintained their suits? How did they get in and out of them? Batteries - Fluids - etc - this mission critical process is not even touched upon - surely it is needed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Classicality (talk • contribs) 18:21, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be the same for Apollo 11,12,14,15, and 16 - Why repeat here ? - Rod57 (talk) 10:54, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What did they do between EVAs 

message: When the astronauts arrived at Nansen crater near the South Massif on the second moonwalk, they were 7.6 km away from their spacecraft, the LM.  I think that this is an all-time EVA record (max distance of astronauts ever away from their spacecraft during an EVA of any kind, "spacewalk or moonwalk"), but I've stopped just-short of introducing this claim (instead making closely related verifiable ones) in a recent edit to the article, because I have a concern about verifiability.  I think that IF this claim is true, AND IF a good source or collection of sources exist which establish its truth, THEN it ought to be included in the article as a notable record.  The trouble is sourcing so as not to introduce OR (original research) into the article, especially since a Good Article (GA) assessment (above on this page) had just one "ding" in criteria: presence/absence of OR was "unassessed"—the point being that we extra super don't want any OR on this particular article.
Can (and should) the above claim be introduced into the article?  I think it can (and should), IF AND ONLY IF an appropriate collection of sources exists, and this is where I ask opinions/a bit of help.  The logic would go something like this:
-Almost all EVAs have been tethered, with the astronauts traveling negligible distances away from their spacecraft during EVA.
-Apart from these, only(?) seven EVAs (the 1984 MMU/1994 SAFER tests) were untethered, with the astronauts only traveling (insert max distances, a rather important detail but I don't imagine they were ever more than a few hundred meters/feet out)
-This leaves the Apollo moonwalk set of EVAs, and since Apollo 17 EVA-2 is the extreme in this set, it's the all-time distance record.  The closest source I've been able to find to the above point is this, but it doesn't actually establish the specific claim (and we can do better than a listicle source besides).
Is the above claim capable of verifiability for inclusion in the article?  I think it is, but I don't quite see the path.  Am I over-thinking this? MinnesotanUser (talk) 06:10, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: EVA-2, station 2 is the all-time EVA distance-from-spacecraft record.  I have changed the language in the article to underline this notable fact.  A recent book on the lunar rover itself uses poetic (but credible) language to claim that the station was the greatest PLANETARY distance, stopping short of all-time language.  However, we can add a context note and explicit language in a Chaikin article that no other EVA comes close- the orbital record was Bruce McCandless' initial MMU test.  Putting these two reliable sources together satisfactorily establishes the claim.MinnesotanUser (talk) 03:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Max distance from LM: verifiable(?) all-time EVA record?

message: Footnotes 16 & 17, same url.--Jarodalien (talk) 16:18, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, all the press releases for 1971 are the same URL.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:38, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

text: Chapter "Lunar landing": "Approximately ten later, the LM pitched over", minutes?--Jarodalien (talk) 13:13, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:48, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this correct? 

message: change " was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program," to  " was the final lunar mission of NASA's Apollo program,"
as there were additional missions that were part of the "Apollo Program" such as Apollo-Soyuz that came after Apollo 17. Wilnerboy (talk) 23:57, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done Neither Skylab nor Apollo-Soyuz were part of the Apollo program, though they did use leftover Apollo equipment.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:12, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 August 2023