Apollo 17 Mission Plan

The highly successful Apollo 17 manned lunar landing mission was the final in a series of missions in the Apollo Program. Scientific objectives for the mission included geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in the area of the Taurus-Littrow region; deploying and activating surface experiments; and conducting inflight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and trans-Earth coast.

Mission Event List and Timeline

EVENT	DATE & TIME (EST)	MISSION TIME
Launch	December 7   12:33:00 am	00:00:00
Translunar injection	03:45:37 am	03:12:37
CSM-LM docking	04:39:45 am	03:56:45
Lunar orbit insertion	December 10   02:47:23 pm	86:14:23
CSM-LM separation	December 11   12:20:56 pm	107:47:56
Lunar landing	02:54:57 pm	110:21:57
First EVA	06:54:49 pm	114:21:49
Second EVA	December 12   06:28:06 pm	137:55:06
Third EVA	December 13   05:25:48 pm	160:52:48
Lunar liftoff	December 14   05:54:37 pm	185:21:37
LM-CSM docking	08:10:15 pm	187:37:15
Trans-Earth injection	December 16   06:35:09 pm	234:02:0
Splashdown	December 19   02:24:59 pm	301:51:5

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