NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Apollo 17

Launch Time
Thu Dec 07, 1972 05:33 UTC

Rocket

Saturn V
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $1,160.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 35,100 kN
Payload to LEO: 140,000 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 110.6 m

Mission Details

Apollo 17

Apollo 17 is the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent time humans traveled beyond low Earth orbit. It was also the first mission 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. The mission broke several records: the longest moon landing, longest total extravehicular activities (moonwalks), largest lunar sample, and longest time in lunar orbit.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 48,607.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection

Location

LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1972

103rd orbital launch attempt

Saturn V

12th mission
2nd mission of 1972
11th successful mission
10th consecutive successful mission