When Apollo 17 lifted off from the Moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley on December 14, 1972, Eugene Cernan became the last human being to leave footprints in lunar dust. He and geologist Harrison Schmitt had ...

Humans haven’t been back to the moon since the Apollo moons program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.

[Apollo 17] EUGENE CERNAN AND THE ROVER AT THE TAURUS-LITTROW SCIENTIFIC SITE, FRAMED BY THE TOWERING NORTH MASSIF (NASA's own copy, used and annotated, for the preparation of its final Apollo Science ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...

Forty years ago today, Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, climbed back up the ladder of his lunar module and took off from the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley — thus ending America’s lunar program.

An unassuming rock collected from the surface of the moon over 50 years ago by the Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt could completely alter what we thought we knew about the early ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eugene Andrew Cernan was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, ...

Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...

This iconic image is that of the last and most famous photographic ritual of the Apollo missions: the “Salute to the American Flag”. It punctuates the last mission of the Apollo program and the period ...

LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...