Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. It was launched by a Saturn V rocket Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ron Evans and lunar module ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Schmitt is seen collecting Moon samples by a large lunar boulder, with part ...

With NASA closer than ever to the Artemis II launch, the world again focuses on December 1972, when humans last walked on the Moon. Apollo 17, the curtain-closer of the original Moon program, closed ...