The Apollo 17 mission was the last of the Apollo lunar landing missions and took place December 7 1972 December 19 1972 The longest of the Apollo missions the crew of Gene Cernan Harrison Schmitt ...
Apollo 17 in 1972 was the final crewed mission to the moon. The mission’s Commander, Eugene Cernan — the last man on the moon — observed a strange crescent-shaped glow on the moon’s horizon.
Furthermore, the Apollo 17 flag planted in December 1972, the program's last moon mission, was uniquely noteworthy; that flag had been displayed in the Mission Operations Control Room during the ...
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. But before Artemis ...