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Apollo 17 poised as the most exciting moon mission
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 17 to depart December 6 for Taurus Littrow with astronauts Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. Instruments include a surface gravimeter mass spectrometer and surface electrical properties probe to study lunar atmosphere water ice and possible volatiles. A geologist joins the crew marking a new emphasis on field analysis.
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Rocco Petrone
Eugene Cernan
Ronald Evans
Harrison Schmitt
Joseph Weber
University of Maryland
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Taurus-Littrow