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Apollo 17 was the last manned Moon mission in the Apollo program. It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, United States on December 7, 1972. The spacecraft had a three-man crew: Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Dr. Harrison Schmitt.

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  • Apollo 17 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion (SN-F39)

    Apollo 17 space-flown silver Robbins medallion

  • Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan training in Sudbury

    Gene Cernan participates in geology training in Sudbury, Ontario in May 1972

  • Apollo 17 CSM SIM bay

    Apollo 17 SIM bay on the Service Module, seen from the Lunar Module in orbit around the Moon

  • Apollo 17 rover at final resting site

    Apollo 17 lunar rover at its final resting place on the Moon. The Surface Electrical Properties (SEP) receiver is the antenna on the right-rear of the vehicle

  • Apollo 17 liftoff

    Apollo 17 launches on December 7, 1972

  • Apollo 17 Cernan on moon

    Eugene Cernan on the lunar surface, December 13, 1972

  • 584392main M168000580LR ap17 area

    Apollo 17 landing site, photographed in 2011 by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

  • Lunar Regolith 70050 from Apollo 17 in National Museum of Natural History

    Lunar Regolith collected during Apollo 17

  • Ap17-S72-55974

    Apollo 17 post-landing recovery operations

  • Apollo 17 The Last Moon Shot Edit1

    The Apollo 17 Saturn V awaits launch

  • Spiro Agnew Congratulates Launch Control After Launch of Apollo 17 - GPN-2002-000058

    Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch

  • The Earth seen from Apollo 17

    Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft heads for the Moon (known as "The Blue Marble photo")

  • Taurus-Littrow valley 4078 h3

    Lunar Orbiter 4 image of the Taurus-Littrow valley, with the landing site near center.

  • Astronaut Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth (Apollo 17 EVA-1)

    Harrison Schmitt poses with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA. Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor

  • Waning crescent earth seen from the moon

    View of the waning crescent Earth seen rising above the lunar horizon over the Ritz Crater

  • Moon-apollo17-schmitt boulder

    Schmitt stands next to a large boulder during EVA-3. He is looking in the direction of the LM which is visible beyond the right limb of the boulder.

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    Cernan in the Lunar Module after EVA-3

  • Harrison Schmitt inside LM on surface, Apollo 17

    Schmitt in the Lunar Module after EVA-3

  • Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald E. Evans performs an extravehicular activity during the trans-Earth coast

    Evans performs an EVA before returning home

  • A17-plaque

    The plaque left on the Moon by Apollo 17

  • Apollo17UV

    A model of the UV spectrometer used to take the first accurate measurements of the constituents of the Moon's atmosphere

  • Challenger 4x

    Landing site, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009

  • Apollo 17 LM Challenger LRO

    Narrow-angle image of the LM Challenger descent stage surrounded by LRV tracks and footprints, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011


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