Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the ...

To mark the historic launch of Apollo 17, Saunders shared eight high-resolution images from his book with Ars, along with captions. You can click on any of the photos to enlarge them. The photos ...

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

"On Apollo 17, they took far more photographs than on any other mission," he explains. "They took 3,999 hand-held photos. And of those, about 2,500 were taken on the lunar surface and that’s ...

Shortly after midnight, 50 years ago this morning, the Apollo 17 mission lifted off from Florida. With Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans on board, this was NASA's sixth and final ...

Among those images was the one now known as the Blue Marble shot, the first photograph ever taken of the planet in its entirety. The Blue Marble photo, showing Earth as Apollo 17 astronauts saw it ...

Emerging view David Scott in the Command Module Hatch during Apollo 9. (Photo: Rusty Schweickart; courtesy: NASA /JSC /ASU /Andy Saunders) If you’re a fan of space travel, chances are that you’ve ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was photographed by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt just a few hours after a trans lunar ...

The Apollo 17 mission, the final Apollo mission to the moon, began 50 years ago, this week. The Apollo 17 mission, the final Apollo mission to the moon, ... You can hear people talk about it, you can ...

Apollo 17, left, blasting off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, ... Red Huber/Getty Images. 50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever.

Apollo 17 was the last mission to place human on the moon 50 years ago. The rocket lifted off Dec. 7, 1972, and the crew stepped onto the moon Dec. 11.