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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
05:33:00
Thursday December 7, 1972
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
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.
Trans Lunar Injection
1 Payload
48,607 kilograms
12th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1972
103rd
Orbital launch attempt