Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. In the ...

Schmitt is seen collecting Moon samples by a large lunar boulder, with part of the Lunar Rover in the foreground. Apollo 17, the sixth and last manned mission to the Moon, with astronauts Eugene ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would still be challenging scientists' understanding of lunar history today. The ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

(NewsNation) — In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts went on their mission to the moon, but until Friday, the majority of the world did not know what the three men witnessed on their mission, such as lights ...

Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. It was launched by a Saturn V rocket Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ron Evans and lunar module ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Astronaut Capt Gene Cernan speaks at the Omega Celebrates The 40th Anniversary of The Apollo Moon Landing at South Coast Plaza on July 11, 2009 in Costa Mesa, California. (Photo by Frazer ...

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