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Apollo 17
Mission Summary
Apollo 17 Facts
Apollo 17 Crew
Spacecraft
Landing Site
Mission Objectives
Lunar Geologic Science
Lunar Orbital Science
Images
Audio/Video
The Apollo Program |
| Lunar Module: |
Challenger |
| Command and Service
Module: |
America |
| Crew:
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Eugene A. Cernan, commander,
Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot
Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot |
| Launch: |
December 7, 1972
05:33:00 UT (12:33:00 a.m. EST)
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A |
| Landing Site: |
Taurus-Littrow
(20.18N, 30.76E) |
| Landed on Moon: |
December 11, 1972
19:54:57 UT (02:54:57 p.m. EST)
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| EVA duration: |
22 hours 4 minutes
( EVA 1: 7 hr 12 min, EVA 2: 7 hr 37 min., EVA 3 ended at 05:40:56
GMT on December 14.)
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| Lunar Surface Traversed |
30 kilometers |
| Moon Rocks Returned: |
110 kilograms |
| LM Departed Moon: |
December 14, 1972
22:54:37 UT (5:54:37 p.m. EST)
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| Time on Lunar Surface: |
74 hr. 59 min. 40 sec.
[19:54:57 UT December 11, 1972 - 22:54:37 GMT December 14, 1972]
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| Returned to Earth: |
December 19, 1972
splashdown at 19:24:59 UT (2:24:59p.m. EST) |
| Mission Duration: |
301 hr. 51 min. 59 sec. |
| Retrieval site: |
Pacific Ocean 17° 53' S, 166°
7' W |
| Retrieval ship: |
U.S.S. Ticonderoga |
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Special Payload:
- Third mission with a lunar roving vehicle (LRV) that could transport
two astronauts. The LRV could also carry tools, scientific equipment,
communications gear, and lunar samples.
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