Harrison Schmitt, now 90, was on the Apollo 17 mission — the last time humans visited the moon. On Wednesday, NASA's Artemis ...

The Artemis II launched from Florida, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission around the moon, but before this could happen the Apollo 17 crew landed on the moon 50 years ago.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This plaque is a replica of the one ...

For the Orion spacecraft and its crew, the moon's gravitational pull is now stronger than Earth's. The crew will reach its ...

In the five decades since the end of the Apollo program, much has changed in astronautics. The differences between the Apollo ...

Many things have changed since the 1960s. At 13:24:59 Central Standard Time on December 19 1972, the Apollo 17 command module ...

Shaving was something of a job on all the Apollo missions because in Zero-G, water doesn't just run off the face. Flickr/NASA Photo/ Project Apollo Archive The last human to walk on the moon was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon, the final Apollo lunar landing. File Photo courtesy of NASA Dec. 11 (UPI) --On ...

When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were deliberately ...