Above: Apollo 17 mission members pose on a lunar roving vehicle ... Apollo 17 was NASA's first night launch of a manned mission. Apollo 17's crew captured this view looking back at Earth as ...

Wilmore and Williams, both former U.S. Navy test pilots, expected to remain in orbit for about 10 days on the mission, which ...

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 ...

Harrison Schmitt was a crew member of Apollo 17, the last of Nasa's lunar landings to date. In this interview, compiled from deleted scenes recorded for the documentary James May on the Moon ...