With missions past Apollo 17 canceled, NASA’s attention returned ... an airlock, and the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) observatory which carried instruments to study the Sun.
The Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon on December 11, in 1972. From that point on, literally for decades, NASA and the United States did not go back to the surface of our nearest planetary body.
Named for the space agency’s newest telescope, the Spectro-Photometer ... The last human to land on the moon was in 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission, and the space agency plans to send ...