Apollo 17 - Spacecraft Locations

Spacecraft Locations

The command module America is currently on display at Space Center Houston at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The ascent stage of lunar module Challenger impacted the Moon 15 December 1972 at 06:50:20.8 UT (1:50 AM EST), at 19°58′N 30°30′E / 19.96°N 30.50°E / 19.96; 30.50 (Apollo 17 LM ascent stage). The descent stage remains on the Moon at the landing site, 20°11′27″N 30°46′18″E / 20.19080°N 30.77168°E / 20.19080; 30.77168 (Apollo 17 LM descent stage).

In 2009 and again in 2011, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the landing site from increasingly low orbits.

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