Mission Parameters
- Mass:
- Launch mass: 2,945,816 kg
- Total spacecraft: 46,782 kg
- CSM mass: 30,354 kg, of which CM was 5840 kg, SM 24,514 kg
- LM mass: 16,428 kg, ascent stage at lunar liftoff 4,951 kg
- Earth orbits: 3 before leaving for Moon, about one on return
- Lunar orbits: 74
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