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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.
The Apollo 17 project, which Feist began in 2009 as a part-time hobby and launched six years later [3] was the first real-time site published. It includes raw audio from the onboard voice and air-to-ground communication channels in Mission Control that had been released by NASA, and film that had been collected by archivist Stephen Slater in the UK. [1]
Description "I was strolling on the Moon one day" video - Apollo 17. More than half of the footage (0:07 to 0:24) is actually from Apollo 16 (Duke and Young approaching House Rock at North Ray crater).
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Apollo 13, 15, 16, 17 The Heat Flow Experiment was a United States NASA lunar science experiment that aimed to measure the rate of heat loss from the surface of the Moon . Four experiments were carried out on board Apollo missions.