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Apollo 17
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Apollo 17: launch
Watch Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt walking and singing on the Moon in December 1972
Apollo 17 astronauts Apollo 17 Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt on the Moon, 1972 Explore the timeline of the Apollo missions that led the United States to land the first humans on the Moon Apollo program infographic. Interactive: A Tour of the Moon's Landmarks.
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Apollo 17: Media

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Videos

Watch Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt walking and singing on the Moon in December 1972
Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt singing “I Was Strolling...
Video: NASA

Images

Apollo 17: launch
Apollo 17 lifting off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, atop a Saturn V three-stage...
JSC/NASA
Apollo 17 astronauts
Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison “Jack” Smith and Gene Cernan pose for photographs on...
Peter Dayton/NASA
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt working at the Lunar Roving Vehicle at the Taurus-Littrow...
NASA
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt on the Moon, 1972
Apollo 17 geologist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt at the foot of a huge split boulder,...
NASA
Explore the timeline of the Apollo missions that led the United States to land the first humans on the Moon
Timeline and infographic of the Apollo space missions.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Apollo program infographic.
The Apollo program: Major elements of the U.S. Apollo program, showing the Saturn...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley

Interactives

Interactive: A Tour of the Moon's Landmarks.
3D tour of the moon.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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