If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. 44 years. That’s how long it’s been since Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the ...

In the December 1972 issue of Popular Science, writer Alden P. Armagnac described Apollo 17 as “the most exciting geological field trip in history.” The lunar landing concluded NASA’s ...

“The craters at about 10 to 15 meters in diameter seem to have somewhat more blocky material in their rims but they're not clear-cut blocky rim craters,” Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17’s Lunar ...

Astronaut Harrison Schmitt drives a rover on the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. They found the field angle matched exactly what they predicted it should be if the ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Apollo 17, the final NASA mission to send humans to the Moon for Project Apollo, splashed down on this day in 1972. The mission was the longest Apollo mission.

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Thanks to the effort of the NASA crew involved in the Apollo 17 mission, it’s possible investigate these phenomena today with datasets from the past. Recently, researchers working with this data ...

An Apollo 17 astronaut stands on the moon’s surface in 1972 with the United States flag in the background. Apollo 17 was the seventh and last manned lunar landing and return-to-Earth mission. | NASA ...

Civilini, who now works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, performed possibly the most in-depth analysis of the data since its collection in the eight months following Apollo 17's landing.

The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are ...