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Revisiting humanity's last crewed Moon mission ahead of Artemis II launch

With NASA closer than ever to the Artemis II launch, the world again focuses on December 1972, when humans last walked on the Moon. Apollo 17, the curtain-closer of the original Moon program, closed ...
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Apollo 17 Spacesuit

Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. It was launched by a Saturn V rocket Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ron Evans and lunar module ...
Time

Setting of the Moon: Apollo 17, Forty Years Later

Schmitt is seen collecting Moon samples by a large lunar boulder, with part of the Lunar Rover in the foreground. Apollo 17, the sixth and last manned mission to the Moon, with astronauts Eugene ...
Fox 5 San Diego

What to know about the Apollo mission that set the precedent for Artemis II

(FOX 5/KUSI) — For the first time in more than 50 years, a manned rocket blasted off from Earth on a historic mission around the moon. The Artemis II launched from Florida on Wednesday, sending a crew ...