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Personnel in the Launch Control Center's Firing Room #1 monitor the final count of the 'dry' portion of the week long Countdown Demonstration test [CDDT]. The CDDT is a dress rehearsal for launch, and its successful completion cleared the way for the Apollo 17 launch scheduled for December 6, 1972 at 9:53 p.m. The targeted landing point for the Apollo 17 mission is a combination mountain highland and valley lowland region designated Taurus- Littrow. The flight crew for the Apollo 17 mission, the sixth and final Apollo Lunar landing is comprised of E.A. Cernan, R. E. Evans and Dr. H. H. Schmitt.

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Description: Personnel in the Launch Control Center's Firing Room #1 monitor the final count of the 'dry' portion of the week long Countdown Demonstration test [CDDT]. The CDDT is a dress rehearsal for launch, and its successful completion cleared the way for the Apollo 17 launch scheduled for December 6, 1972 at 9:53 p.m. The targeted landing point for the Apollo 17 mission is a combination mountain highland and valley lowland region designated Taurus- Littrow. The flight crew for the Apollo 17 mission, the sixth and final Apollo Lunar landing is comprised of E.A. Cernan, R. E. Evans and Dr. H. H. Schmitt.

Created on: Tuesday 21 November 1972

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US SPACE PROGRAM / APOLLO / APOLLO 17 / Training and Pre-Flight

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