The closer they came on their return journey, the more the Earth loomed. In a striking image taken by Apollo 17, almost the entirety of Africa is visible, with the southern portion of the ...

and how environmental disasters of his day inspired the creation of Earth Day in 1970. On December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured a now-iconic image of Earth, sometimes called the “blue marble ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned ... Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions.