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Apollo 17

The Apollo 17 was sent into space on December 7, 1972 was the sixth and final mission landing.
The crew of Apollo 17 was composed of the commander and a veteran Eugene A. CERN, the lunar module pilot and geologist Harrison H. Schmitt called Jack and the command module pilot Ronald E. Evans.
The name of the craft, was challenger for the lunar module and americas for the command module.
During the stay in lunar soil, made three “evasive” (extravehicular activities) on foot and with the Lunar Rover lunar rover 7 hours each (35 miles total), which collected 110 kilograms of samples of lunar rocks and left installed an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package with the following tools: a gravimetric surface to analyze the attraction that the Sun and Earth exerted on our satellite, a measuring device mass, speed and frequency of falling meteorites and erosion of the material ejection by the impact, an apparatus to determine the seismic profile based explosive charges, as well as a measuring atmospheric composition near the lunar surface.

This mission broke several records: longest stay on the Moon with a total of nearly 75 hours; longer period in the lunar surface without interruption (7 hours and 37 minutes) and a maximum time of exploration with 22 hours and 5 minutes.

Amerizaron successfully in the Pacific Ocean on December 19, 1972, after a flight of 301 hours, 51 minutes.
With this flight ended the Apollo project (which managed to put 12 men on the Moon from a total of 27 who achieved orbit) achieved its initial mission to take a human being to our satellite before the USSR, demonstrating the not too distant possibility to establish permanent lunar bases in the lunar crust rich in minerals and placing complex instrumental study, some of whose aircraft still providing a great service to current selenography.