Apollo 17

Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program, and was the sixth and last mission to date to land on the Moon. It was the first night launch, and the final mission, of the Apollo program.

Mission parameters

• Mass:
• Launch mass: 2,923,387 kg
• Total spacecraft: 46,678 kg
• CSM mass: 30,320 kg, of which CM was 5960 kg, SM 24,360 kg
• LM mass: 16,448 kg, of which ascent stage was 4985 kg, descent stage 11,463 kg
• Earth orbits: 2 before leaving for Moon, about one on return
• Lunar orbits: 75
• Perigee: 168.9 km
• Apogee: 171.3 km
• Inclination: 28.526°
• Period: 87.83 min
• Perilune: 97.4 km
• Apolune: 314.8 km
• Inclination: 159.9°
• Period: min
• Landing Site: 20.19080° N - 30.77168° E or
  20° 11' 26.88" N - 30° 46' 18.05" E

Docking

• Undocked: December 11, 1972 - 17:20:56 UTC
• Docked: December 15, 1972 - 01:10:15 UTC

EVAs

• Cernan and Schmitt - EVA 1
• EVA 1 Start: December 11, 1972, 23:54:49 UTC
• EVA 1 End: 12 December 07:06:42 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds
• Cernan and Schmitt - EVA 2
• EVA 2 Start: December 12, 1972, 23:28:06 UTC
• EVA 2 End: 13 December 07:05:02 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 36 minutes, 56 seconds
• Cernan and Schmitt - EVA 3
• EVA 3 Start: December 13, 1972, 22:25:48 UTC
• EVA 3 End: 14 December 05:40:56 UTC
• Duration: 7 hours, 15 minutes, 08 seconds
• Evans - Transearth EVA 4
• EVA 4 Start: December 17, 1972, 20:27:40 UTC
• EVA 4 End: 17 December 21:33:24 UTC
• Duration: 1 hour, 05 minutes, 44 seconds

See also

• Extra-vehicular activity
• List of spacewalks
• Splashdown
• List of artificial objects on the Moon
• Google Moon

The splashdown point was 17 deg 53 min S, 166 deg 7 min W, 350 nautical miles SE of the Samoan Islands and 6.5 km (4 mi) from the recovery ship USS Ticonderoga. Apollo 17 landed approximately 640m from its target point.

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