Apollo Program Part7: Apollo17

Video from the channel NASA2007 about Apollo program, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:12. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

Excerpt from a documentary series on the Apollo program devoted to Apollo 17, the mission that closed it out. It was the program's only night launch. It carried Gene Cernan and geologist Jack Schmitt, the first professional scientist to visit the Moon, to the Taurus-Littrow valley, on the southeastern edge of the Sea of Serenity, while Ron Evans remained in orbit aboard the command module America.

The narrator presents it as the culmination of the program. It was the longest mission, at 12 days, 13 hours and 51 minutes, and the one with the longest surface stay: three moonwalks of over 7 hours each, 21 miles covered with the third lunar rover, and 243 pounds of samples. The Challenger module lifted off from the Moon on December 14, 1972, and the documentary recalls that no one would return for the rest of the century.