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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.
(By the way, don't Google "Apollo 11 images" unless you're prepared to sort through pages of fake moon landing conspiracy websites.) The most famous one is this iconic picture of Aldrin below.
[60] [61] Comparison of the original 16 mm Apollo 17 LM camera footage during ascent to the 2011 LRO photos of the landing site show an almost exact match of the rover tracks. [ 62 ] Further imaging in 2012 shows the shadows cast by the flags planted by the astronauts on all Apollo landing sites.
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.
It served as the landing site for the American Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The valley is located on the southeastern edge of Mare Serenitatis along a ring of mountains formed between 3.8 and 3.9 billion years ago when a large object impacted the Moon, forming the Serenitatis basin and ...
July 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM Saturday, July 20th marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most formative events not just for American history, but for the history of mankind: The Apollo moon landing.