APOLLO 17
Call Name: America and Challenger
Crew: Harrison H. Schmitt. Ronald E. Evans, Eugene A. Cernan
Date: December 7-19 1972
For the last flight in the Apollo Program, a half-million people gathered at Kennedy Space Center to witness the final launch of a moon-bound spacecraft. Astronaut Schmitt was the first scientist-astronaut to land on the moon. Describes the preparations for Skylab, the US/USSR link-up and the space shuttle programs of the future. When "America" headed
back to earth, astronaut Cernan said, "It (Apollo) has been a beginning. I don't think there will ever be an end, not as long as man is alive and willing."

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