Le storie di Nonno Apollo 042 - La missione Apollo 17

Video from the channel AstronautiCAST about Apollo 17, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:11. Language: Italian. Video type: Documentary.

Excerpt from the Italian podcast AstronautiCAST, from the series «Le storie di Nonno Apollo». It looks back at the Apollo 17 mission on its anniversary, 41 years after launch.

Apollo 17 was the last crewed mission of the Apollo program to the Moon. It lifted off on 7 December 1972 with Gene Cernan as commander, geologist Harrison Schmitt as lunar module pilot and Ron Evans as command module pilot. A few hours after launch, the crew photographed the whole Earth, the image known as "Blue Marble".

The lunar module landed on 11 December on the shores of the Sea of Serenity. The crew made three moonwalks, totalling about 22 hours outside the spacecraft, and collected nearly 110 kg of samples. Liftoff from the Moon took place on 14 December, making Cernan the last human to walk on it, and the crew returned to Earth on 19 December 1972.