photo #8628446

Just after unloading the Lunar Roving Vehicle from the Lunar Module, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan accidentally knocked off the LRV’s right-rear fender extension. He taped it back on but it fell off later, and the wheel kicked a plume of fine lunar dust over the rover and its occupants. At the suggestion of technicians on Earth, Cernan and Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt taped together several plastic-coated map sheets to make a replacement fender extension.