National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Successful

Apollo 17

Saturn V

Thu, 07 Dec 1972 05:33:00 GMT

Historical mission record

This page records Saturn V | Apollo 17 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

Source record updated Jun 14, 2023, 8:44 AM UTC. This is a source update, not a confirmed launch time.

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Mission status

Launch Successful

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

Apollo 17 was the final mission of the Apollo program. The craft was crewed by Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt & Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans. The mission lasted for 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds during which time Cernan & Schmitt spent 3 days on lunar surface completing three moonwalks to collect lunar samples and install scientific instruments on the surface. Apollo 17 was the last time human beings have gone beyond Low Earth Orbit.

Launch vehicle: Saturn V
Mission type: Human Exploration
Destination orbit: Lunar Orbit
Spacecraft: Apollo America CSM-114
Destination: Lunar Orbit where the LM would detach and land on the Moon.
Launch pad: Launch Complex 39A
Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Programs: Apollo

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Launch vehicle

Saturn V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Height: 110.6 m
Diameter: 10.1 m
Stages: 3
Recorded launches: 13
First flight: 1967-11-09