On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the Moon for Project Apollo, splashed down on this day in 1972. [...] ...

In 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon. It was the final Apollo lunar landing. Ron Evans was the command module pilot and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breaking Achievement. Apollo 17 set multiple records: longest manned lunar landing flight (301 hours 51 minutes), longest lunar surface activities (22 hours 6 m ...

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the ...

The first lunar golf shot that went for "miles and miles and miles" occurred on Feb. 6, 1971. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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.