"We leave as we came... with peace and hope for all mankind," Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan said as he took man's last steps on the moon. It's been 45 years since the launch of Apollo 17 ...

Schmitt is photographed working beside a huge boulder at Station 6 (base of North Massif) during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Copernicus ...

On Feb. 17, 1965, its successor Ranger 8 launched ... A little more than four years after the final Ranger images, Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon. The impacts of the Ranger probes ...