Status
Success
Rocket
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