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NASA gave them identification numbers A3305, A3326, A3352, A3356, and A3400, and their nicknames were given by the Apollo 17 crew (Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans). The four male mice, one female mouse, and Evans orbited the Moon for a record-setting six days and four hours in the Apollo command module America as Cernan and ...
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon.Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
Five mice of this species travelled to and orbited the Moon 75 times in an experiment on board the Apollo 17 command module in December 1972. Four of the mice survived the trip. [ 2 ] Six other little pocket mice were sent into orbit with Skylab 3 in July 1973, though these animals died only 30 hours into the mission due to a power failure.
Preparations for the flight package for Apollo 17 began at the Kennedy Space Center on December 2, 1972. Five mice were selected from a colony of 30 who had been prepared at the Ames Research Center and installed into five of the six aluminium tubes. Each tube had a 30 g mixture of seeds that included rye, sunflower seeds, oats and millet.
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.
The Apollo 17 lunar lander module left behind by US astronauts on the moon’s surface could be causing moonquakes, or small tremors, a new study revealed. Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...
The U.S. last sent astronauts to the moon during the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17, in 1972. "To align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations, we informed our Space Launch ...