Apollo 17

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

05:33:00

Thursday December 7, 1972

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Apollo 17

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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

Rocket

Retired
Saturn V

Active 1967 to 1973

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Price

$1160.00 million

Rocket

Height: 110.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 140,000 kg

Liftoff Thrust

35,100 Kilonewtons

Stages

3

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Saturn V


12th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1972

1972


103rd

Orbital launch attempt