| Lunar Module: | Challenger |
| Command and Service Module: | America |
| Crew: | 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) |
| 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.) |
| 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) |
| Time on Lunar Surface: | 74 hr. 59 min. 40 sec. [19:54:57 UT December 11, 1972 - 22:54:37 GMT December 14, 1972] |
| 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 |
| 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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