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Buy nowApollo 17 : Gene Cernan signed panoramic photo1.500,00 €
Out of StockBuy nowApollo 17 : Gene Cernan’s Signed Flight Plan2.450,00 €
Buy nowApollo 12, 14, 16 & 17 McDonnell Information Booklets950,00 €
Buy nowApollo 17 Cernan and Rover NASA Transparency From Master950,00 €
Buy nowApollo 17 Landing Area Geologic Map1.950,00 €
Buy nowApollo 17 Preliminary Science Report2.000,00 €
Buy nowApollo 17 US Flag and Earth NASA Transparency From Master950,00 €
Buy nowLong, Vintage Apollo 17 Panoramic NASA Negative2.450,00 €
Buy nowNASA APOLLO 17 Panorama Negative roll2.450,00 €
Out of StockBuy nowAPOLLO 17 Launch Control Center at KSC450,00 €Apollo 17 mission
Apollo 17 was the last crewed mission to the Moon. It was launched on December 7, 1972, in the first night launch of a Saturn V rocket, and its crew spent three days on the lunar surface, from December 11 to 14. Eugene Cernan commanded the mission, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was the lunar module pilot, and Ronald Evans stayed in lunar orbit aboard the command module, America. Cernan and Schmitt landed in the lunar module Challenger in the Taurus-Littrow valley, on the southeastern edge of the Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis).
Cernan and Schmitt carried out three moonwalks, about 22 hours in total, a record for the Apollo program. They drove a lunar roving vehicle for about 35 kilometers (22 miles) across the valley and collected about 110 kilograms (243 pounds) of rocks and soil to bring back to Earth. One of their most famous discoveries was a patch of orange soil, which turned out to be volcanic glass.
Apollo 17 was also the first mission to include a scientist among its crew. Schmitt, a geologist, was one of the first six scientist-astronauts selected in 1965, after the National Academy of Sciences pressed NASA to give scientists, and not only test pilots, a chance to walk on the Moon. He later served as a United States senator for New Mexico.
On the way to the Moon, the crew took a photograph of the whole Earth, lit by the Sun. Known as the "Blue Marble," it is one of the most reproduced pictures ever taken. Before leaving the surface, Cernan spoke of returning to the Moon in peace, and he became the last man on the Moon, a title he held until he died in 2017. The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 19, 1972.
No human has returned to the Moon since. Browse the Apollo 17 pieces below, then explore Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 13, our Apollo memorabilia page and our signed astronaut autographs.
Apollo 17 side story
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), first used on Apollo 15 and again on Apollo 16 and 17, let astronauts travel much farther from the lunar module during their limited time outside. On Apollo 17, just after unloading the rover, commander Eugene Cernan accidentally knocked off its right-rear fender extension. He taped it back on, but it fell off again, and the wheel threw a plume of fine lunar dust over the rover and its occupants. Following a suggestion from engineers on Earth, Cernan and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt taped together several plastic-coated map sheets to make a replacement fender extension, and the improvised repair kept the dust down for the rest of their moonwalks.
Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan recalls fixing a lunar rover problem with duct tape during his December 1972 mission. Cernan's interview was part of the commemoration of NASA's 50th anniversary
Apollo 17 Crew
Commander Eugene Cernan,
Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt,
and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans.
Apollo 17 Key achievments
Longest Apollo mission - 301 hours 52 minutes
Longest single extravehicular activity (EVA) time on surface - 7 ½ hours
Longest total EVA time on surface - 22 hours
Greatest Lunar Rover Vehicle distance on one EVA - 19 kilometers (14 miles)
Greatest Lunar Rover Vehicle total distance traveled - 35 kilometers (25 miles)
First geologist astronaut on lunar surface - Harrison H. Schmitt
Largest number of lunar samples returned to Earth - 117 kilograms (257 pounds)Apollo 17 earth photo

The "Blue Marble" is a photograph of the whole Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972, shortly after leaving Earth orbit for the Moon. Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ronald Evans and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt, the first scientist to fly to the Moon, were about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from home. With the Sun behind them, they saw the planet fully lit, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Antarctic ice cap.
It was the first time an Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is visible, with the Arabian Peninsula at its northeastern edge and the large island of Madagascar off its coast. Heavy cloud covers the Southern Hemisphere, and the Asian mainland appears on the horizon to the northeast. It remains one of the most reproduced photographs ever made and was taken on the last mission to the Moon.
Credit : NASA
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