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National Memorial Day Parade 2023 honors Apollo astronauts in US capital (video)
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApollo lunar module pilots Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt and Rusty Schweickart joined active NASA...
Apollo 17: Looking back at the last time the US landed on the moon
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoScientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder...
Apollo 17 at 50: Last step, last words and long wait for lunar return
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApollo 17 was the last mission to place human on the moon 50 years ago. The rocket lifted off Dec....
Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age
Reuters via AOL· 7 months agoDuring the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts...
The moon is 40 million years older than we thought, according to crystals collected by Apollo...
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn December 13, 1972, scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge,...
Former New Mexico senator was last moonwalker in 1972
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 11—Just before taking off on what would be the last space mission in which men walked the moon, astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt did something unexpected. He grabbed a nap. When the ...
Mysterious tremors on the moon have been traced back to an unexpected source
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn annotated image shows an astronaut waving next to the Apollo 16 lander. Scientist have found a...
On this date: the last moonwalk (for now)
WHTM via Yahoo News· 6 months ago(WHTM) –On December 11, 2022, the United States completed the first step in sending human beings back to the moon, when an unmanned Orion spacecraft...
Video: Watch as Gene Cernan takes a tumble on the moon, in honor of Apollo 17’s 51-year anniversary
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoApollo 17 was the final moon mission. Watch Eugene Cernan, engineer and astronaut, hop along the...
Apollo 17 astronauts collected rocks that reveal the moon’s true age
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThis week, unlock the moon’s true age with Apollo 17 samples, uncover dinosaur footprints on a...