^Lot 498 Tool Kit

Flown Apollo 17 complete tool kit carried in the command module America on the Apollo 17 lunar mission—the last lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. Sixteen-piece set consists of an adjustable open end wrench, emergency wrench, three jack screws, a 20? tether, a ‘midget’ ratchet wrench, an adapter handle, and eight various flathead, Philips, and socket drivers. Entire kit is housed in its original Beta cloth pouch, serial #V36-601135-501, in their respectively labeled Velcro closing pocket. Kit measures 12 x 25.25 when unrolled. When rolled, the kit seals with three Velcro tabs at the top and has a patch identifying it as “Tool Kit.” Each tool has a tether ring and is designated with a heavy stock card NASA-MSC System and Component Historical Records, each piece’s history from being flown on the Apollo 17 Command Module, with a flight duration of 304 hours, 44 minutes, and 20 seconds, and its release from bonded storage. Entire kit is also accompanied by a Space Division, North American Rockwell Corporation temporary parts removal tag. In addition, each tool has its own serial numbers. This kit was located in the CM in locker A-8, and was listed on the official mission stowage list as being the only one aboard. Complete, intact artifact sets of this kind with such detailed records for each individual piece are exceedingly rare and in very high demand.