Utilizing the Lunar Roving Car to scoot across the floor, Cernan and Schmitt carried out three moonwalks totaling simply over 22 hours. At one level they traveled 7.4 kilometers (4.6 miles) away from the protection of the Lunar Module, the farthest in the course of the Apollo program.
The astronauts additionally broke the document for probably the most time spent on the floor: 75 hours. Through the third and closing moonwalk, Cernan unveiled a plaque on the bottom of the Lunar Module commemorating humanity’s “first explorations of the Moon.”
Cernan and Schmitt blasted off and rendezvoused with Evans within the Command Module. After jettisoning the Lunar Module, the trio headed for Earth. On the way in which house, Evans carried out a spacewalk within the void between the Moon and the Earth to retrieve movie cassettes. The mission ended with a splashdown within the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.
