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Apollo 17
Apollo 17
was the final mission of
NASA
's
Apollo program
, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the
Moon
. Launched at 12:33 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander
Eugene Cernan
,
Command Module
Pilot
Ronald Evans
, and
Lunar Module
Pilot
Harrison Schmitt
, it was the last use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo 17, extra
Apollo spacecraft
were used in the
Skylab
and
Apollo–Soyuz
programs.
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