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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.
Apollo missions 16, 17 and Apollo-Soyuz. [2] ... FDO is responsible for pre-mission planning and real-time execution of all Starliner trajectory operations, including ...
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.
NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe landing sights down to nine. ... 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission.
Apollo crewed development mission patches. Click on a patch to read the main article about that mission. Apollo 7, launched from LC-34 on October 11, 1968, was the C mission, crewed by Schirra, Eisele, and Cunningham. It was an 11-day Earth-orbital flight which tested the CSM systems. [100]
The team evaluated a number of proposed gravimetry experiments but despite Weber's own work on LSG prototypes starting in 1964, [14] NASA's approval of the Lunar Surface Gravimeter only came late on in the planning process for Apollo 17. [19]
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan drove a lunar roving vehicle on the moon's surface during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. It's still on the moon more than 50 years later. - NASA/JSC
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. ... But the Apollo 17 mission, ...