Apollo 17: NASA's final Apollo moon landing mission in pictures Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock was on ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen ...

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 ...