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Waiting for the word "Go!"

Walt Cunningham seems to be reading the commemorative plaque on the shovel.

From left to right: Jim Flinn, vice chair of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission; unknown; Loretta Spencer, mayor of Huntsville; unknown; Dr. George Mueller, Associate Administrator of the Office of Manned Space Flight during the Apollo era; Walt Cunningham, Apollo 7 astronaut; Dick Gordon, Gemini 11 and Apollo 12 astronaut; Larry Capps, USSRC CEO; Bill Gurley, Saturn V Restoration Project chairman; Joe Ritch, US Space and Rocket Center Foundation chairman; Brad Jones, chair-elect of the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce; and unknown.