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Nixon had been deeply concerned about the Apollo 13 astronauts, and, fearing another mission in crisis as he ran for re-election, initially decided to omit the funds for Apollo 17 from the budget; he was persuaded to accept a December 1972 date for the mission. [40] Like Apollo 15 and 16, Apollo 17 was slated to be a "J-mission", an Apollo ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo 17 CSM "America" NASA Lunar Crewed lunar orbiter: December 19, 1971: Successful Apollo 17 lunar module "Challenger" NASA Lunar Crewed lunar lander: December 14, 1971 (at Moon) Successful Crewed spaceflight to the Moon with 3 astronauts. Final flight of Apollo program. December 11 07:56 Delta 0900: D-93 Vandenberg AFB, SLC-2W: Nimbus 5 ...
Apollo 17 (J3) Taurus–Littrow valley, December 1972; At the time, 35 of NASA's 49 active astronauts were waiting for a mission. [12] In the final days of the program, Apollo 17 LMP Schmitt aggressively lobbied for a crewed landing on the far side of the Moon, targeting the far side Tsiolkovskiy crater.
During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples ...
Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last, Apollo 17, in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve people walked on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin (pictured) walked on the Moon with Neil Armstrong, on Apollo 11, July 20–21, 1969.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule with a crew of four on a mission to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday ...
This week, unlock the moon’s true age with Apollo 17 samples, uncover dinosaur footprints on a beach, discover a hidden ancient Antarctic landscape, and more.