Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America

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Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America was the spacecraft that carried the crew of NASA’s final Apollo lunar mission to and from the Moon in December 1972.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Apollo 17 CSM 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Apollo Command and Service Module
crewed spacecraft
spacecraft
callSign America NERFINISHED
carriedCrew Eugene Cernan NERFINISHED
Harrison Schmitt NERFINISHED
Ronald Evans NERFINISHED
commandModuleName America NERFINISHED
commandModulePilotStayedIn lunar orbit
commandModuleType Apollo Command Module NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewCapacity 3
crewEVAFromCM Ronald Evans deep-space EVA to retrieve film canisters
crewPosition Eugene Cernan – Commander (overall mission, primarily in Lunar Module) NERFINISHED
Harrison Schmitt – Lunar Module Pilot
Ronald Evans – Command Module Pilot NERFINISHED
dockedWith Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger NERFINISHED
finalApolloLunarMission true
heatShieldFunction protected crew during atmospheric reentry
heatShieldType ablative heat shield
launchDate 1972-12-07
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
launchVehicle Saturn V NERFINISHED
manufacturer North American Rockwell NERFINISHED
mission Apollo 17 NERFINISHED
missionDuration about 12 days
missionEndEvent splashdown in Pacific Ocean
missionNotableFor last Saturn V crewed launch
last crewed Apollo lunar landing mission
missionRole return crew from lunar orbit to Earth
transport crew to lunar orbit
missionStartEvent launch from Kennedy Space Center
missionType lunar landing support
operator NASA
orbited Earth NERFINISHED
Moon NERFINISHED
partOf Apollo 17 NERFINISHED
powerSource fuel cells
program Apollo program NERFINISHED
recoveredBy USS Ticonderoga NERFINISHED
recoveryLocation Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED
reentryDate 1972-12-19
returnedComponent Command Module only; Service Module jettisoned before reentry
returnedToEarth with lunar samples and crew
separatedFrom Saturn V S-IVB stage after translunar injection
serviceModuleType Apollo Service Module NERFINISHED
servicePropulsionSystem AJ10-137 engine NERFINISHED
spacecraftMassClass about 30 metric tons (CSM combined, approximate)

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America missionNumber Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America
this entity surface form: Apollo 17 CSM
Ronald E. Evans spacecraft Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America
Harrison H. Schmitt wasOnBoard Apollo 17 Command and Service Module America