This is the spacesuit worn by Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan while he walked the Taurus-Littrow Valley in December 1972. Compare this suit to the previous image of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's suit. This suit was an improvement on the earlier suit, allowing the astronaut more flexibility (for example easier to bend at the waist so he could sit on the Lunar Rover). The most obvious difference is in the arrangement of the suit connectors for the various hoses as well as with the red stripes that were used starting on Apollo 13 to distinguish the commander from the lunar module pilot in the lunar photography and video. This image was taken at 24mm focal length with an exposure of 1/25 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 800, with a flash.
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