*apollo 17*

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*11 december 1972*

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(6th and final venture to ‘the moon’)

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(“Apollo 17” was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program)

(launched at 12:33 AM “Eastern Standard Time” (EST) on “7 december 1972”, with a crew made up of “Commander Eugene Cernan”, “Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans”, and “Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt”, it was the last use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo 17, extra Apollo spacecraft were used in the ‘Skylab’ and ‘Apollo–Soyuz’ programs)

(‘Apollo 17’ was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the final manned launch of a ‘Saturn V’ rocket)

(it was a “J-type mission” which included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the third “Lunar Roving Vehicle” (LRV))

(while ‘Evans’ remained in lunar orbit in the “Command/Service Module” (CSM), ‘Cernan’ and ‘Schmitt’ spent just over 3 days on the moon in the “Taurus–Littrow” valley and completed 3 moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments)

(‘Evans’ took scientific measurements and photographs from orbit using a ‘Scientific Instruments Module’ mounted in the ‘Service Module’)

(the landing site was chosen with the primary objectives of “Apollo 17” in mind: to sample lunar highland material older than the impact that formed “Mare Imbrium”, and investigate the possibility of relatively new volcanic activity in the same area)

(‘Cernan’, ‘Evans’, and ‘Schmitt’ returned to Earth on December 19 after a 12-day mission)

(‘Apollo 17’ is the most recent manned Moon landing and was the last time humans travelled beyond “low earth orbit”)

(it was also the first mission to be commanded by a person with no background as a test pilot, and the first to have no one on board who had been a test pilot; X-15 test pilot ‘Joe Engle’ lost the lunar module pilot assignment to ‘Schmitt’, a scientist)

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(the mission broke several records…)

‘longest moon landing’

‘longest total extra-vehicular activities’
(aka ‘moonwalks’)

‘largest lunar sample’

*longest time in ‘lunar orbit’*

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*WIKI-LINK*

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👈👈👈 ☜ *“APOLLO 16”*

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*“APOLLO 18” (???)* ☞ 👉👉👉

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👈👈👈☜*“SUCCESSFUL MOON LANDINGS”* ☞ 👉👉👉

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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*

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