1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach
Apollo 17
Most recent crewed lunar landing; completed Apollo surface exploration.
Era 2 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 7 Dec 1972
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Moon
- Category
- Crewed lunar landing
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Saturn V SA-512
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
- Duration
- 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes, 59 seconds
Why it happened
Apollo 17 flew during 1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach, as part of United States's work toward moon. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Most recent crewed lunar landing; completed Apollo surface exploration.
Results
Most recent crewed lunar landing; completed Apollo surface exploration.
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Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-22)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog