Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. In all, 20 Apollo flights were planned but Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were canceled. But in 2007 ...

The final Apollo mission was one of superlatives ... spent 22 hours over three days walking and driving around Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17's landing site on the edge of the Sea of Serenity (which ...

the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...

No space program from any other nation before ... It canceled Apollo 18 and Apollo 19, and Nixon was going to cancel Apollo 16 and 17 but was convinced not to. Photo of flight director’s console.

ending with Apollo 17 in 1972 (Apollo 13 famously failed). But since then neither NASA nor the Russians – or even any space agency worldwide – have even attempted a manned return. Dr Martin ...

Ron Evans on Apollo 17 in 1972. Omega’s new X-33 watch is ... that astronauts can use when they are inside the International Space Station. Vintage timepieces are a hot topic, says Levasseur ...

Kranz went on to serve as flight director for Apollo 17 (December 7-19, 1972), the final mission in the lunar landing series, then as deputy director and director of NASA mission operations.