On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched its last Apollo mission to the moon: Apollo 17. See photos from the historic mission here.

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 ...

NASA Photos Celebrate Apollo 17 Anniversary, 45 Years After Historic Mission Put Men on the Moon. Published Dec 07, 2017 at 5:05 PM EST. On Dec. 13, 1972, scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt ...

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.

47 years ago in 1972, Apollo 17 became NASA's last manned moon landing. A crew of three astronauts spent three days on the moon, taking lunar samples and walking on the surface. They landed back ...

"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 ...

The pictures were taken two weeks ago and show the landing sites for Apollo 12, 14 and 17. The closest images are of the 1972 Apollo 17 site, the last moon mission./p> ...

The Apollo 17 spacecraft, carrying Cernan, Evans and Schmitt, glides to a safe splashdown on Dec. 19, 1972, about 350 nautical miles southeast of American Samoa.

As the screen filled with by-now-grainy images of the Apollo 17 moon walkers bunny-hopping across the Taurus-Littrow valley, the present-day Cernan gestured to me to step closer.

Apollo 17 lights the night: NASA's last lunar landing mission lifted off at 12:33 a.m. EST on Dec. 7, 1972, 40 years ago. NASA ... [Photos: New Views of Apollo Moon Landing Sites] ...