"You've got to realize young people are essential to this kind of an effort," the Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt ...
Artemis 2 was initially slotted for a December 2024 liftoff, but that schedule was delayed in January 2024. NASA said several ...
The final Apollo mission was one of superlatives ... spent 22 hours over three days walking and driving around Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17's landing site on the edge of the Sea of Serenity (which ...
The last human to land on the moon was on Dec. 19, 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. The astronauts on that mission were the last to visit the moon and the last to travel more than 400 miles ...
The US remains the only country to have put humans on the lunar surface, most recently in 1972 with the Apollo 17 mission.
the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...
Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...