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Apollo 17
Saturn V · Human Exploration
1972Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
Apollo 17 was the final mission of the Apollo program. The craft was crewed by Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt & Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans. The mission lasted for 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds during which time Cernan & Schmitt spent 3 days on lunar surface completing three moonwalks to collect lunar samples and install scientific instruments on the surface. Apollo 17 was the last time human beings have gone beyond Low Earth Orbit.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Orbit
- LO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2