Apollo 17 Crew Medical Debriefing, 1972 (NASA-UAP-D028)
- Date
- 12/21/72 (per official index)
- Location
- Texas (per official index)
- Agency
- NASA
- Release
- Release 04 (July 10, 2026)
- Type
- audio
Summary
Audio item (MP4 file); no transcript was provided and the audio was not transcribed here, so this summary rests on the index text alone. Per index: This file contains segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas. In the recording, crew members discuss the “light flash phenomena,” a then novel, now well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina, causing the perception of light streaks or flashes.
Note
No transcript was provided; contents are known only from the index text.