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Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission — the last one that put humans on the moon. NPR takes a look at the mission and what it means for future travel to our lunar companion.

Those were the last words spoken on the moon by astronaut Gene Cernan, during the Apollo 17 mission, on Dec. 14, 1972. No one has set foot on the moon since. As we reach the 50th anniversary of ...

Marusiak noted that every Apollo mission carried instruments for detecting moonquakes. But the Apollo 17 mission, launched in 1972, was noteworthy because it left behind an array of seismometers ...

Apollo 17—the sixth and final mission of NASA’s history-making initiative to land human explorers on the moon—was a scientific breakthrough: During their 75-hour lunar stay, crewmembers ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Fifty years ago, the visit of the Apollo 17 spacecraft would be the last time man set foot on the moon. Half a century later, we are still learning from that visit to ...

Of the four samples her team has been allocated from the Apollo 17 mission, the last to land men on the moon, one sample was preserved by freezing, which is an uncommon method, Barnes said.

Lockheed Martin handed off the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis II mission that looks to fly four astronauts around the moon no later than April 2026.