Apollo 17

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Apollo 17 was the sixth and final sucessful manned flight of Project Apollo, the manned NASA moon missions. On the voyage of the command module "America" and the lunar module "Challenger" Apollo 17 was crewed by Eugene A. Cernan, the Commander; Ronald E. Evans, the Command Module Pilot and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot. Schmitt a geologist by training was the only trained scientist to walk on the moon. Together the crew of Apollo 17 would spend the longest time on the lunar surface (147 hours 48 minutes), return with the largest weight of samples from the moon (approximately 110 kg or 243 pounds). Apollo 17 spent three days on the moon landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis. Apollo 17 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the first night launch on December 6, 1972, landing on the moon on December 11th, and concluded by returning to earth on 19 December 1972.

NASA plans to return to the moon with Project Constellation aboard Orion 15, expected to be launched in late 2019, some 47 years after Apollo 17.