Apollo 17 (Apollo 17) is the eleventh manned mission in the Apollo program of NASA, and it is also the sixth and last human mission to the moon. Apollo 17 was the only night launch mission in the Apollo program, which also ended the Apollo program.
Task statistics
Mission name: Apollo 17
Call sign: command/service module: USA
Lunar module: challenger
Number of members: 3
Launch site: LC 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Release time: February 7th 1972 15:33:00 UTC.
Moon landing:197212119: 54: 57 UTC; 20. 19080N-30.77 168 E； Tauras-Litro Valley
Monthly walking time: 1 time: 7 hours 1 1 min 53 seconds; Second time: 7 hours, 36 minutes and 56 seconds; Third time: 7 hours 15 minutes and 8 seconds; Total * * *: 22 hours, 3 minutes and 57 seconds
Duration of monthly watch: 74 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds.
Mass of lunar specimen:110.52kg.
Landing:1972121919 utc.
Landing place: south latitude 17 degrees 53 minutes, west longitude 166 degrees 7 minutes.
Task time: 12 days 13 hours 5 1 minute 59 seconds.
Orbital time: before flying to the moon: 2
After returning: about 1
Apogee:171.3km.
Perigee: 168.9 km
Earth orbit period: 87.83 minutes.
Earth orbit inclination: 28.526.
Orbit around the moon: 75 cycles
Lunar orbit time: 147 hours, 43 minutes and 37. 1 1 sec.
Lunar apogee: 314.8km.
Near moon point: 97.4km.
Lunar orbital period: ~ 120 minutes
The inclination of the moon's orbit: 159.9.
Mass: command module: 30369kg；; Lunar module: 16456 kg
Task member
Eugene Cernan (Eugene Cernan, who has performed Gemini 9A, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions), commander.
Ron Evans (who participated in the Apollo 17 mission) was the pilot of the command/service module.
Jack Schmitt (who performed the Apollo 17 mission) was the pilot of the lunar module.
▲ Alternate member
Commander John Young (John Young, who has performed Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS- 1 and STS-9 missions).
Stewart rosa (who once carried out the Apollo 14 mission) was the pilot of the command/service module.
Charles Duke (on Apollo 16) was the pilot of the lunar module.
▲ Support team
Robert F. Overmyer who has performed STS-5 and STS-5 1-B missions)
Robert parker (Robert A. Parker, who has performed STS-9 and STS-35 missions).
Gordon fullerton (C Gordon fullerton who has performed STS-3 and STS-5 1-F missions)
task data
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O emission mass: 2,923,400kg
O Total mass of spacecraft: 46,700kg
Mass of command/service module: 30,320kg, including command module (CM): 5960kg and service module (SM):24360kg.
Mass of lunar module: take-off/docking phase: 16454kg, separation/landing phase: 16679kg, and take-off phase: 4988kg.
▲ Lunar orbit
Landing place: 20.19080n-30.775438+068e or
20 1 1'26.88 "N 30 46' 18.05" E.
▲ docking
Separation:1972 65438+February11-17: 20: 56 UTC.
Docking:1972 65438+February 65438+May-01:10:15 UTC.
▲ Extravehicular activities
Extravehicular activities 1
Cernan and Schmidt
The start time of extravehicular activity is1:19721211,23:54:49 UTC.
Extravehicular activities 1 End time: 65438+February 12 07:06:42 UTC.
Duration: 7 hours 1 1 min 53 seconds.
Extravehicular activities 2
Cernan and Schmidt
Extravehicular activity 2 start time:19721212 23: 28: 06 UTC.
Extravehicular activity ends at 2:65438+2: 13:07:05:02 UTC.
Duration: 7 hours, 36 minutes and 56 seconds
Extravehicular activities 3
Cernan and Schmidt
Extravehicular activity 3 start time: Coordinated Universal Time19721213 22: 25: 48.
Extravehicular activity ends at 3:65438+2: 14:05:40:56 UTC.
Duration: 7 hours 15 minutes and 08 seconds.
Extravehicular activity (towards the earth) 4
joris ivens
Extravehicular activity 4 start time: Coordinated Universal Time19721217 20: 27: 40.
Extravehicular activities end at 4: 65438+February 65438+July 2 1:33:24 UTC.
Duration: 1 hour 05 minutes 44 seconds
Apollo/KOOC-0/7 landed at/KOOC-0/7 degrees 53 minutes south latitude and/KOOC-0/66 degrees 7 minutes west longitude, about 650 kilometers southeast of Samoa and 6.5 kilometers away from the rescue ship Tikondroga 6.5 Apollo 17 deviated from the planned landing site by about 640 meters.
Task introduction
Jack Schmitt is the only scientist in the Apollo program to carry out this task. He is the pilot of Apollo 17 lunar module. He and Cernan collected 65,438+065,438+065,438+0 kg moon rock samples during their three lunar walks. On a lunar rover, they traveled 34 kilometers in the Taurus-Litro Valley and found orange-red soil. After the mission, the two men left the most complete set of scientific instruments on the surface of the moon. This mission became the last of the Apollo program.
The mission's landing site, Taolas-Litro Valley, is located in the southeast of Mare Serenitatis and southwest of Montes Taurus. This is a dark moon, located between three towering hills. The photos of the moon before the mission showed some protrusions at the foot of three mountains, which means that there may be bedrock specimens in this area. There is also a landslide relic and several impact craters in this area.
As a J-mission, Apollo 17 used the lunar rover for the third time. The exploration time of the three-month table is 7.2 hours, 7.6 hours and 7.3 hours respectively. The whole mission brought back 1 10.5 kg moon rock samples.
The Apollo 17 command module is currently on display at the lyndon johnson Space Center in Houston.
In this mission, three astronauts took the famous photo "Blue Agate".
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Geologist Jack Schmitt was the first scientist to land on the moon.
Like the previous Apollo 10, 12, 13 and 14 astronauts, Apollo 17 also landed in the Pacific Ocean near American Samoa.
The inscription on the Apollo 17 memorial board left on the moon reads: Man has completed his first exploration of the moon. 1972 65438+ February. May the spirit of peace we bring be with all mankind. (Signature: Cernan, Evans, Schmidt, Richard Nixon).
Because of his Czechoslovakian ancestry, Commander eugene cernan left a Czechoslovakian flag on the moon.
In the original plan, Schmidt will carry out Apollo 18. After the cancellation of Apollo 18, under the pressure of the scientific community, Schmidt was chosen to implement Apollo 17 instead of Joseph Engel.
Apollo 17 created many records in the Apollo program, including the longest flight to the moon; Walking on the moon takes the longest time; Apollo 17 collected the largest number of lunar specimens and spent the longest time in lunar orbit.
well-known saying
"ah! When you see an earth, you see everything. " -Jack Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot.
"We were here when we left the Moon Valley of Taolas-Park Yung-Su Luoshan, and now we are going to leave here; If circumstances permit, we will come back here with the peace and hope of all mankind. When I leave the moon, I want to say that America's challenge to space today will shape the destiny of mankind tomorrow. May god be with Apollo 17. " -eugene cernan, commander of Apollo 17. So far, the last man on the moon, 1972 12 14.
Jack Schmitt is the only scientist in the Apollo program to carry out this task. He is the pilot of Apollo 17 lunar module. He and Cernan collected 65,438+065,438+065,438+0 kg moon rock samples during their three lunar walks. On a lunar rover, they traveled 34 kilometers in the Taurus-Litro Valley and found orange soil. After the mission, the two men left the most complete set of scientific instruments on the surface of the moon. This mission became the last of the Apollo program.
The mission's landing site, Taolas-Litro Valley, is located in the southeast of Mare Serenitatis and southwest of Montes Taurus. This is a dark moon, located between three towering hills. The photos of the moon before the mission showed some protrusions at the foot of three mountains, which means that there may be bedrock specimens in this area. There is also a landslide relic and several impact craters in this area.
As a J-mission, Apollo 17 used the lunar rover for the third time. The exploration time of the three-month table is 7.2 hours, 7.6 hours and 7.3 hours respectively. The whole mission brought back 1 10.5 kg moon rock samples.
The Apollo 17 command module is currently on display at the lyndon johnson Space Center in Houston.
In this mission, three astronauts took the famous photo "Blue Agate".