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§ Historical recordApollo 17 LM Challenger descent stage
Crewed LM descent stage soft-landed and remains at the landing site.
- Coordinates
- 20.1911, 30.7723 (positive-east)
- Era
- A (1959-1976)
- Parent mission
- Apollo 17
- Role
- Lunar Module descent stage
- Operator
- NASA
- Nation
- USA
- Launched (UTC)
- 1972-12-07 05:33:00
- Reached Moon (UTC)
- 1972-12-11 19:54:57
- Event type
- lander/crewed
- Outcome
- success
- Site
- Taurus-Littrow
- Left on surface
- LM descent stage and crew-emplaced surface hardware at landing site
- Returned material
- none
- Current status
- on lunar surface
- Operational status (derived)
- inactive
- Source grade
- primary
Primary source