All told, Eugene Cernan, who was the last man on the moon, 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 ...

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. As of 2015, more than 1,800 spinoff consumer and ...

A tribute to three brave astronauts and the thousands of men and women behind them during the final days of NASA's Apollo program.

On December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured a now-iconic image of Earth, sometimes called the “blue marble.” Our National Air and Space Museum explains how it became an inspiration and symbol ...