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Apollo 17
Apollo 17, preceded by Apollo 16, was the final Apollo mission.
Schmitt took this picture of Cernan flanked by an American flag and their lunar rover's umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna near the beginning of their third and final excursion across the lunar surface. The prominent Sculptured Hills lie in the background while Schmitt's reflection can just be made out in Cernan's helmet.
Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned mission in the Apollo program, and was the sixth and last mission to date to land on the moon.
Schmitt took this picture of Cernan flanked by an American flag and their lunar rover's umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna near the beginning of their third and final excursion across the lunar surface. The prominent Sculptured Hills lie in the background while Schmitt's reflection can just be made out in Cernan's helmet.
- Launched: December 7, 1972 (first night launch)
- Returned: December 19, 1972
- Crew members: Gene Cernan, commander; Ron Evans[?], command module pilot; Harrison Schmitt, lunar module pilot.
- Command module: America
- Lunar module: Challenger
- Landed: December 11, 1972
- Lunar landing site: 20.2 N, 30.8 E -- Taurus-Littrow
- On surface: 3 days 3.0 hours
- Lunar EVA: 22.1 hours (7.2 + 7.6 + 7.3)
- Samples: 110.5 kg
A J-class mission, featuring the Lunar Rover.
Mission notes:
- Schmitt, a geologist, was the first scientist on the moon.
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