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Embark on a fascinating exploration of the Moon’s most mysterious and unusual surface formations using rare high-resolution images captured during the historic Apollo 17 mission in 1972. These ...

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt in 1972, covered in lunar dust. NASA The energy created by the impact from the object that struck Earth and created the moon melted the rock that eventually ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission ...

Those were the last words spoken on the moon by astronaut Gene Cernan, during the Apollo 17 mission, on Dec. 14, 1972. No one has set foot on the moon since. As we reach the 50th anniversary of ...

Missions 16 and 17 were also very nearly axed under President Richard Nixon's original proposal in September 1970. But in a stark silver lining, Apollo 16 and 17 were both allowed to go ahead as ...

Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission — the last one that put humans on the moon. NPR takes a look at the mission and what it means for future travel to our lunar companion.