Over 50 years have passed since humanity last set foot on the Moon during Apollo 17 in 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan, the last man to leave the lunar surface, expressed hopes that humanity would ...

Lot Details About This Lot During the Apollo 17 Mission's first extravehicular activity (EVA) on the surface of the moon, astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt was photographed by Eugene Cernan. The ...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, researchers will get the chance to study lunar samples returned by the last three Apollo missions to land men on the moon.

On This Day: Apollo 17 lands on moon On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon, the final Apollo lunar landing.

As U.S. commercial lander heads to lunar surface, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt says moon is important for ‘vast energy and materials’ Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt is the most ...

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.

Although the moon is Earth’s nearest neighbor, many secrets remain — mysteries that could be solved by paying a visit to the lunar surface. Lunar update When Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan ...

Lunar dust collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in the 1970s has revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed. After landing on the moon on December 11, 1972, NASA ...

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples ...

UNDATED (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - The abandoned Apollo 17 lander has been causing tremors on the moon. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets found the spacecraft, which was ...