08 EPHEMERIDE 19 DECEMBRE 1972 DERNIERE MISSION SUR LA LUNE POUR APOLLO 17

Video from the channel RTI Officiel about Apollo 17, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:24. Language: French. Video type: Documentary.

Historical-date segment from the RTI channel devoted to the end of Apollo 17, the mission that closed out the Apollo program, with its splashdown on December 19, 1972.

It recalls that the crew, made up of Ronald Evans, Eugene Cernan, and Harrison Schmitt, launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V. The landing took place on December 11 on the southeastern edge of the Sea of Serenity. The goal was to study the geology of the area, the structure and evolution of the Moon, and the possibility of recent volcanism.

Cernan and Schmitt, who was a geologist, covered more than 35 km on the surface and gathered more than 100 kg of samples. The spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The segment presents it as the most productive mission of the program and the last to take men to the Moon.