Apollo 17 was NASA's first night launch of a manned mission. Apollo 17's crew captured this view looking back at Earth as they traveled toward the moon. This was the first time the Apollo ...

From the high ground of space, it’s almost impossible to take a bad picture of the jewel box landscape below, but the Apollo VII crew managed ... Apollo 17—like Apollos XV and XVI—left ...

When the crew of Apollo 17 went to the moon in December 1972, one of their tasks was to bring back rock and soil samples so that scientists could better understand the moon’s geologic history.

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo ... Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther ...