Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. In the ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

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The last three men to travel to the moon made it safe back to Earth 50 years ago today as the Apollo 17 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972. Just five days earlier, Commander ...

Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972. The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I’s recently concluded mission. Apollo 17, left, ...

Fifty years ago this month, American astronaut Eugene Cernan surveyed the infinite beauty of the Moon's Taurus–Littrow region. He then took his final steps on its surface and climbed in to join his ...

When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were deliberately ...

New Mexico has quite the growing aerospace industry now, but the state’s space-faring roots go back for decades. In total, 12 Americans have walked on the moon including former New Mexico senator and ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the first ...

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