The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the ...
It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...
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 ...
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.