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NASA ID: 72-H-1550	Mission: Apollo 17	Taken/released on: 19/12/1972

Apollo 17 Pacific Recovery Area

The Apollo 17 spacecraft, containing astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt, glided to a safe splashdown at 2:25 pm EST on December 19, 1972, 648 kilometers (350 nautical miles) southeast of American Samoa. They were flown by recovery helicopter to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga slightly less than an hour after the completion of NASA's sixth and last manned lunar landing in the Apollo program. (Source: GRIN)

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Alternative PhotoIDs: GPN-2002-000059

Keywords: gene ron jack

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