Here’s how it works. Apollo 17 took the 11th and 12th people to the surface of the moon and marked the end of the Apollo program. By the time the mission launched, on Dec. 7, 1972, public ...

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 ...

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.

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 Earth’s only natural satellite.

Its new, multi-billion-dollar moon rocket launched for the first ... and one of the most important legacies of the Apollo 17 mission, was a photograph of the entire round globe of the Earth ...

This weekend 50 years ago, NASA launched Apollo 17 in what was its sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon. The crew was made up of three astronauts: Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module ...

But it was Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, who took the final steps on the Moon before their departure 50 years ago today on December 16, 1972. He left behind a plaque that ...

The zircon crystals were collected as part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, and researchers recently dated them to determine when the Moon formed. Since the crystals couldn’t have formed when ...

Haise never made it to the Moon. Although scheduled to be commander of Apollo 19, that mission was cancelled because of budget cuts, as were all other flights after Apollo 17. He later served as a ...