Vice President Spiro T. Agnew congratulates launch team personnel, in firing room #1 of launch control minutes after the successful launch of Apollo 17 from Complex 39-A at 12:33 am EST, December 7, 1972, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard. Apollo 17, NASA's sixth and final manned lunar landing mission in the Apollo program, landed within 200 feet of the targeted point in the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the lunar surface at 2:55 pm EST on December 11, 1972.
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew congratulates launch team personnel, in firing room #1 of launch control minutes after the successful launch of Apollo 17 from Complex 39-A at 12:33 am EST, December 7, 1972, with astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard. Apollo 17, NASA's sixth and final manned lunar landing mission in the Apollo program, landed within 200 feet of the targeted point in the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the lunar surface at 2:55 pm EST on December 11, 1972.