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Last Steps On The MoonTribute To Apollo 17 |
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Mission: |
Apollo XVII |
Date Taken: 08/28/72 Title: Apollo 17 rollout to launch pad
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Description: A ground level view at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle arriving at the pad. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower were moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad atop a crawler-transporter. |
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Crew: |
Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt |
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Lift Off: |
Via Saturn V, December 7, 1972 12:33 am EST KSC, Florida Complex 39 |
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Lunar Landing: |
Dec. 11, 1972 2:54 pm EST at Taurus-Littrow |
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Lunar Lift Off : |
Dec. 14, 1972, 5:54 pm EST |
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Splash-Down: |
Dec. 19, 1972, 2:24 pm EST Pacific Ocean |
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Duration: |
12 days, 13 hours, 52 minutes |
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Payload: |
Apollo 17 America (CM-114) and Challenger (LM-12) |
Mission Objective:The lunar landing site was the Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area. This site was picked for Apollo 17 as a location where rocks both older and younger than those previously returned from other Apollo missions and from the Luna 16 and 20 missions might be found. The mission was the final in a series of three J-type missions planned for the Apollo program. These J-type missions can be distinguished from previous G and H-series missions by extended hardware capability, larger scientific payload capacity and by the use of the battery powered Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). Scientific objectives of the Apollo 17 mission included geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a pre-selected area of the Taurus-Littrow region, deploying and activating surface experiments, and conducting in-flight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast (TEC). These objectives included: Deployed experiments such as the Apollo lunar surface experiment package (ALSEP) with a Heat Flow experiment, Lunar seismic profiling (LSP), Lunar surface gravimeter (LSG), Lunar atmospheric composition experiment (LACE) and Lunar eject and meteorites (LEAM).
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Date Taken: 12/07/72 Title: Launch of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken: 12/07/72 Title: View of the Earth seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
Description: Fender repair on the LRV. ==> |
Description:
The 363 foot tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn
512)space vehicle is launched. Apollo 17, the final lunar
landing mission, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch
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Description: View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photo- graph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.
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