Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was photographed by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt ...

The final Moon landing during Apollo 17 lasted 75 hours. Two weeks on the Moon with this equipment sounds like a nightmare. The Apollo missions were far from comfortable for the astronauts.

Furthermore, the Apollo 17 flag planted in December 1972, the program's last moon mission, was uniquely noteworthy; that flag had been displayed in the Mission Operations Control Room during the ...

By Benjamin Mullin and Lauren Hirsch Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management have taken a significant step forward in their effort to court Paramount, three people familiar with ...

As Eugene Cernan took his last steps on the lunar surface, the Apollo 17 commander promised to come back. “As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow,” Cernan said Dec. 13, 1972, “we leave as we ...

17 motorists have been fined after misusing blue badges in Bromley – including using stolen badges, ones whose owners have died, or ones that have been stolen. The fines and costs imposed on ...

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Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt in 1972, covered in lunar dust. NASA The energy created by the impact from the object that struck Earth and created the moon melted the rock that eventually ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg ...

Fresh analysis of the bits of our moon, brought home by Apollo 17 astronauts, has suggested our moon is 40 million years older than we previously thought. That suggests the moon is 4.46 billion ...

But the Apollo 17 mission, launched in 1972, was noteworthy because it left behind an array of seismometers capable of detecting thermal moonquakes — or the tremors induced by the drastic ...