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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.
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]
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey were five mice who traveled to the Moon and circled it 75 times on the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. 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 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 ...
NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle Earthrise, the iconic 1968 image from Apollo 8 taken by astronaut William Anders. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first crewed flight in 1968. It encountered a major setback in 1967 when an Apollo 1 cabin fire killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test.
NASA 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 ...
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 ...
Apollo missions 9, 12, 16, 17, ... NASA currently has a group of flight controllers at the Johnson ... California facility and has publicly revealed few details on ...