Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan’s parting words from the lunar surface on 11 December 1972. This EVA-3 Cuff Checklist can be clearly seen on his left wrist. NASA ...

"On Apollo 17, they took far more photographs than on any other mission," he explains. "They took 3,999 hand-held photos. And of those, about 2,500 were taken on the lunar surface and that’s ...

(13 Dec. 1972) — The Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is photographed near a large lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

Shortly after midnight, 50 years ago this morning, the Apollo 17 mission lifted off from Florida. With Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans on board, this was NASA's sixth and final ...

During Apollo 16, at Station 8 near the end of the second EVA, Charlie Duke and John Young were at the back of the Rover, near the right-rear fender, changing each other's sample bags. Houston was ...

Apollo 15 became the first of three extended missions, known as J missions, and the landing site was moved to Hadley Rille, originally planned for Apollo 19. Apollo 17 would be the program’s ...

A new documentary short film looks back at the last time humanity ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. "The Last Steps" chronicles the journey of Apollo 17, the United States' sixth and last moon ...

Apollo 17 lifted off at 12:33 a.m. EST, Dec. 7, 1972, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center after a two-hour-and-40-minute delay. It was the first night launch of the Saturn V rocket ...

Bid now on The Earth hanging like a jewel in the lunar sky, as seen for the last time by humans from the lunar surface, Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17, EVA 2, 7-19 December by NASA. View a wide Variety of ...

A piece of space history has sold at auction for US$744,994 after the moondust-besmirched checklist Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan wore on his spacesuited wrist during the last crewed lunar ...