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(Monday, December 11, 1972, 2:54:57 p.m. EST) — Apollo 17’s lunar module landed on the moon today with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard, becoming the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.

It was man’s sixth and final manned landing on the lunar surface as the Apollo 17 lunar module Challenger touched down at the Taurus-Litrow crater.

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Shortly thereafter, the two astronauts began re-configuring the LM for their stay on the surface and began preparations for the first moonwalk of the mission, or EVA-1, which began approximately four hours after landing, at about 6:55 p.m. EST.

The astronauts’ final walk on the moon would end in the early morning hours of Dec. 14, 1972.