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Apollo 17
| Mission Number: AS-512 | 7-19 December 1972 |
Crew:
Backup Crew:
John W.
Young, Commander
Stuart
A. Roosa, CSM Pilot
Charles
M. Duke, Jr., LM Pilot
Launch:
Pad: 39-A
Date: 7 December 1972
Time: 05:33:00 UTC
Lunar Landing:
Location: Taurus-Littrow (Lunar 20.16° N, 30.77° E)
Touchdown: 11 December 19:54:57 UTC
EVA #1: 7 hours, 12 minutes
EVA #2: 7 hours, 37 minutes
EVA #3: 7 hours, 16 minutes
Liftoff: 14 December 22:54:37 UTC
Landing:
Location: Pacific Ocean (17° 53' S, 166° 7' W)
Vessel: USS
Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
Date: 19 December 1972
Time: 19:24:59 UTC
Mission Duration: 12
days, 13 hours, 51 minutes, 59 seconds
Surface Stay Time: 3 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes, 40 seconds
Cernan and Schmitt performed 3 EVAs totaling 22 hours, 5 minutes. 243 lbs of material was gathered. The Lunar Rover was used for the third time. Evans also performed a trans-Earth EVA to retrieve film.
The Command and Service Module (CSM) was named America, and the Lunar Module (LM) was named Challenger.
Prior to Apollo 13, the planned lunar landing was proposed to be the Marius Hills.
The Apollo 17 command module is on display at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
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