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Alan Bean Fender Lovin' Care

" FENDER LOVIN' CARE "
Alan Bean

125 Signed & Numbered Giclee Canvas
10" x 14"
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Apollo 17 Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt are doing some
“low-tech” body work on their high-tech Lunar Rover. During their
first moonwalk Gene accidentally hooked the hammer he carried in his
right leg pocket onto the Rover’s right rear fender extension, knocking
it off. He fixed it temporarily by taping it on with duct tape.
Unfortunately, somewhere on their lunar drive the tape gave way
and the fender extension fell off and was lost for good.
Losing a part of a fender, a minor problem on planet earth, is a serious
one in the light gravity of the moon. Gene would report, “Oh, it
pretty near makes me sick at losing that fender. With the loss of any
of the fender extension the dust generated by the wheels is intolerable.
Not just the crew gets dusty, but everything mechanical on the Rover
is subject to dust. I think dust is probably one of our greatest
inhibitors to a normal operation on the moon.”

Back on planet earth, Astronaut John Young and other friends in mission
control conceived a nifty repair. After wake-up the next morning, Gene
and Jack would select four plasticized maps already used on the mission
and tape them together. Back with the Rover on the surface that morning,
they could continue with the repair. I painted Gene and Jack aligning
the maps to the fiberglass fender. When Gene is satisfied, Jack will
hold the maps steady as Gene secures them using two small clamps
normally used to mount auxiliary lights inside the lunar module
cabin. The fix worked!

ALAN BEAN - April 2010

 

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