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View of the lower portion of the suit.

The left thigh appears to have a pouch to store things during the EVA. The pouch must be removable, as the suit's biomedical injection patch is located in this area.

The right thigh has a flap covering the suit's pressure relief valve and Urine Collection and Transfer Assembly connector.

The boots shown here are the ones which were part of the spacesuit, and were the ones used when suited up through most of the mission. When performing a lunar EVA, the astronauts would don the more familiar lunar overboots. To save weight during ascent, the lunar overboots were normally jettisoned prior to the Lunar Module leaving the lunar surface (although on Apollo 17 Cernan decided to bring his back to Earth, even though the mission plan did call for jettisoning them).

 
Legs/lower part of Cernan's Apollo 17 Suit at National Air and Space Museum
Time picture taken Fri Jun 22 11:43:04 2007
Location picture taken Apollo to the Moon Gallery
National Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC
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