"You've got to realize young people are essential to this kind of an effort," the Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt ...

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 ...

Apollo 17 marked the last of the Apollo missions. This mission ran from Dec. 7-19, 1972. This crew of Eugene "Gene" Cernan, ...

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 ...

Each spot is in the lunar South Pole, which has never been explored in a crewed mission and features permanently shadowed areas that can preserve resources like water. The last human to land on the ...