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The Kennedy Space Center launch team is shown here continuing the checkout of Apollo 17 flight hardware for the final lunar exploration mission of Project Apollo. A mission simulation to check out the lunar roving vehicle and all its systems was successfully carried out. Participating in the test, conducted in conjunction with the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas, were prime crew members sitting on the rover Harrison H. Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, left, and Eugene A. Cernan, Commander. Rollout of the Apollo 17 launch vehicle to Complex 39's Pad A happened on August 28, 1972. The lunar module which carried Cernan and Schmitt down to the lunar surface is visible in the background.