apollo 17 landed at the taurus - littrow site on the moon.
where did apollo 17 land on the moon?
the taurus - littrow site
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cernan turned down the opportunity to walk on the moon as lunar module pilot of apollo 16, preferring to risk missing a flight for the opportunity to command his own mission. cernan moved back into the apollo rotation as commander of the backup crew of cernan, ronald e. evans, and joe engle for apollo 14, putting him in position through normal crew rotation to command his own crew on apollo 17. escalating budget cutbacks for nasa, however, brought the number of future lunar missions into question. after the cancellation of apollo 15 in its original h class profile and apollo 19 in september 1970, pressure from the scientific community to shift harrison schmitt, the sole professional geologist in the active apollo roster of astronauts, to the crew of apollo 17, the final scheduled apollo mission, mounted. in august 1971, nasa named schmitt as the lunar module pilot for apollo 17, which meant the original lm pilot joe engle never had the opportunity to walk on the moon. cernan fought to keep his crew together; given the choice of flying with schmitt as lmp or seeing his entire crew removed from apollo 17, cernan chose to fly with schmitt. cernan eventually came to have a positive evaluation of schmitt's abilities; he concluded that schmitt was an outstanding lm pilot while engle—notwithstanding his outstanding record as an aircraft test pilot—was merely an adequate one.
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